The simple things!
Often times, it is the simple things we take for granted. As the old adage goes you never know what you have until it’s gone. I felt that way recently as I experienced and injury playing the game I love, basketball.
Snap, just like that after three games a torn Achilles. Tragic, just like that the sport I chose to play to get back in shape just set me back a few months. The struggle!
The simple thing I took for granted being able to walk, had now become something foreign. A mundane and trivial body movement, one I took for granted would be the bodily movement that I would yearn for and spend the next 3-4 months in rehabilitation to achieve.
Depression set in! Which was subsided by the inpouring of texts and comments on and Instagram post. As they days went on so did the love, and it came to a screeching holt. Now alone with my thought unable to move freely as I once did. I took a Moment to appreciate the simple act of walking. I began to reflect why is it that we only appreciate things when we lose them, or they are gone. Through it all I’m thankful for this experience it’s taught me to remember to appreciate the simple things.
Augustine Obeng