You Have a Job. Do It.

I’d been injured playing basketball before. Beyond the little fingernail scrapes and bruises, I had just gotten back from a rib injury. Even now, my big toe is black from bruising. Basketball is a contact sport and I’m no spring chicken anymore. I took a deep breath and asked him the question I’d been so worried to ask. It’d been churning in my mind for a week, “should I quit basketball if I keep getting injured?”