I just kept building and pushing forward in times of great despair and hardship these past 3 years, and has especially intensified in the past 2 months, and even more so the past 2 weeks. My football coach in high school taught me that unless you are actually physically injured... "play through the pain". Everyone is about to see/hear the results of living this philosophy, which I hope will serve as an even greater inspiration to those that were tossed and lost in the gutter like I was. There is nothing like coming out of a long darkness with a brick of gold to share that you crafted in the shadows.
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This! Huh which position did you play? I played full back and linebacker but ended up playing DE by senior year and had best year ever. blocked field goals, fumbles, sacks... oh man those were the days!
Gotta be tough to hang with the big dogs! no wonder you are such a winner!
I played center and nose-guard in middle school, and linebacker and tight end in high school. Helped bring our team to our first two playoff appearances in our school's history, our first two regional championships, and dang near won states twice in those two years in top AAA VA football (only barely beaten by the eventual state champs in the semis)... it was quite competitive. I also ran track and wrestled in middle school, swam on swim teams every summer in middle and high (and ever since I was a kid), and made Eagle Scout by the time I was a sophomore with a bronze palm (and unawarded silver palm). A scout from our troop was awarded the medal of honor for saving his entire family from a burning building. A group of us almost won a metal of heroism for saving a farm from a brush fire that started in a big cornfield by the C&O canal during a patrol campout I organized (that sounds much easier than it actually was - 14 year old's choking on smoke the whole time, pretty much blinded, beating out an entire field fire with nothing more than cloths and what little water we had at the campsite which had to be carried out a long distance). No one else was around to stop that fire, including the farmers.