A healthy body is as important as a healthy mind. I knew if health is gone, everything is gone. But I never thought I would realize this early on.

Okay, let’s step back here a moment. I am not dying or anything. It’s just that after the most recent spine injury, ( a compressed disk L5-S1) life has not been the same. First instant on August 2021 and a second time April 2022. Reduction in mobility is the most frustrating aspect of it. The constant pain when you stretch your hamstrings and the fear of re-occurrence is even more daunting. The occasional neck pains caused by the daily 8 hour stare at the computer screen.

As I am trying to revive myself by spending 1 hour everyday walking, another injury. It seems fate has got some other plans for me. One fine day, when I feel, I could push myself to try and jog, I injured my left knee. A mild cartilage tear probably (aka Meniscal strain). The meniscal strain in the knee has caused a complete evasion tendency to fetch of things below my waist. This, combined with my back injury is really annoying me, sucking the life out of me. Every time, I bend to fetch something, I fear that I’m damaging it more, or to say the least, slowing down my recovery.

Constantly zoning out, thinking about the times when I could run, jump and climb as effortlessly as I can. I’m getting this feeling that those days are gone. I really want to bounce back to a life of fearless mobility. Though life has not hit me hard, I certainly sense what it is capable of.