The Comeback Is Always Stronger Than the Setback
We were walking, side by side, when someone I love deeply asked me how I got myself out of a dark hole during my high school years. With a deep breath, I started spilling my heart out the whole time wondering if anything I was saying would resonate. "Please God let this make sense to this person", is all I could think. At the moment, my only focus was to get them to see my side because if they did, it might save them. The person I was speaking with is currently struggling themselves, possibly more than I ever did, especially internally. On this four mile walk, a lot of questions were asked, hard and personal ones that I answered as honestly as I could because my gut feeling said a lot was at stake. Before I get into how I answered, let's go back in time and give you a little history on myself, especially if you are new to my story. I played and excelled in soccer growing up. From the early years of grade school that was my passion and what I was great at. I'll always believe it was a gift given to me by God which I guess explains why I was so so angry with him when it was taken away. My Scoliosis was discovered when I was in sixth grade. Of course, the devastation was the first feeling that seeped into my body but I still continued playing with the dream I would make it big. I would play in college and on to professional. In my heart, I knew it would happen and be my future. High School came around and I made varsity as a freshman. To say that year flew by would be an understatement. Scouts started reaching out to me during my freshman year and it lit a big fire under my butt! This was it, I'm going to my dream college with a soccer scholarship! Onto Sophomore year I went with every intention of blowing it out of the water. During my first practice, I tore the ACL in my right knee and it went downward from there. I rehabbed with the goal of making the most epic comeback ever and re-tore the same knee my very first game back. I'll never forget when I collapsed on the field. I knew immediately what had happened. I cried [...]