The old loop started…
I’m hurting. I’m in pain. I’m struggling.
So I flipped it.
When you talk to yourself in the first person, you spiral.
When you switch to third person, you create distance.
Hey Wei-Li, you’re in pain. What are you going to do about it?
The focus shifted from suffering to response.
Not this is hard, but how am I going to handle this ‘hard?’
Now I wasn’t thinking like the guy who had hit the ground countless times. I was thinking like someone capable of more.
And when that wasn’t working, I went back to 2016.
To staring at my right foot and telling it to move.
To relearning how to walk.
Compared to that, this was a choice.
Instead of obsessing over pain, I pivoted to gratitude.
I get to be here.
I get to be on this horizon.
I get to push my limits.