Dealing with injuries..
What I have learned from my experiences.
Hey there!
If I am being honest I am not someone to quickly post about injuries whenever I receive them. Reason being is because I’ve been injured one way or another for so long that whenever I talk about them I always get made fun of because of it. Of course I get used to taking these sorts of jokes, but they do take a bit of a toll on me.
I haven’t really told any friends or people close to me about this except for probably one or two, but it’s true. Dealing with injuries isn’t fun, so having to deal with jokes along with it can be funny for a bit, but when you have to keep dealing with everything for a good amount of time it all begins to feel like too much.
I’ve had a knee injury on my right leg for about a year and a half now, that I hadn’t really taken care of until a few months ago around October.
During this time I wasn’t able to do any sort of exercise; no running, jogging, sprinting, weight lifting, or lifting in general, or exercises that required me to land on my legs or use my legs. Because of this I fell into a bit of a hole as I had lost all my progress that I had been making with working out and dieting.
At the beginning of December I ended up playing basketball with a friend (it was the first sort of activity I had done since I was told to not workout). During this basketball session I ended up jamming the middle finger on my right hand badly, which I later learned that I had almost broken in half; so you can imagine how much pain I was in that day.
A couple weeks after that I ended up flipping while driving a go-kart which ended up hurting my leg again but I was able to tightly wrap it which I think saved my knee from receiving a lot more damage. Along with my leg I ended up injuring my left hand, including my wrist and the bones in my hand and thumb.
This then added on to the amount of time I had to take away from the gym and any sort of running.
A couple weeks into January was when I first began to run again starting with slow, distanced jogs. I did a few of these runs before I went to go play soccer this past Friday.
If you’ve noticed a pattern of bad luck happening throughout this post then you may know what’s about to come up next..
Towards the end of our soccer session (which was just me playing with some friends) my friend ended up crashing his knee with the back of my left leg. He ended up hitting in between the calf muscle and the knee, but I felt all the pain near the top of the calf muscle. As soon as he hit me my leg felt numb and right away I understood how unfair life can be. It feels as if I can’t enjoy anything in life without having some sort of tragedy happen to me.
This is horrible timing as this upcoming Saturday I have a 10k race that I had been training for the last few weeks. Now because of this injury I have not only missed work, as well as limped around the house the last couple of days, but I also can’t walk properly still and most definitely won’t be able to run for the next couple of days. If anything I’m hoping by Friday I can get my leg to run again, and if not then I am going to have to pull off a David Goggins-esc mindset and run the race by tightly wrapping my leg throughout the race.
You may be wondering why I’m saying all this. One reason is that I just wanted to be able to vent to you for a bit. But that is not the main reason.
The second and main reason is to tell you to not give up.
As corny as it sounds, my experiences with injuries have taught me to keep pushing forward. After every injury there is nothing else I can do but to accept what has happened, figure out how I can heal my injury, and begin to recover from it.
After every injury I have never given up on my goals of running races. In fact, I am still planning on running my second marathon next year in January.
Although my injuries have put me in a dark place, I haven’t stopped completely. Because I couldn’t do physical activities, I realized that this gave me time to work on other endeavors. From this I have not only started the NeverNothing brand, but I have also started planning several things for the future of this brand, as well as started this newsletter to help people in their journey of self growth and self improvement; from tips on finance to health to even talking about philosophy.
All in all the main takeaway from this is that you will face adversity in life. Somehow, someway, life will throw different roadblocks at you, but you have to figure out a way to make the best results out of those challenges.
Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, instead be afraid of not learning from those mistakes.
Sometimes these obstacles won’t even come from mistakes, they may not even be your fault at all. All you can do is learn about yourself to become better. To learn what you can and should do to take action and create a product from your initiative that you will be forever proud of.
Life is hard, but just make sure to keep going. As cliché as it is, it is one of the best pieces of advice anyone can give.
Make sure to never give up!