My safe space - the starting line

I have been a passionate athlete all my life and have self-learned most of what I know. So when I tore my ACL while playing football in 2019, I really had no other option but to pull back and take a break. Family, friends and doctors, all told me that going back to the pitch will be close to impossible. That I should pick up another hobby. Just like that!

No doubt it was a tough time. I had not sustained such injury in my life before. I could feel that my physical and emotional health had started to deteriorate. I had exaggerated nightmares

about my lack of mobility and what I would become if that were to happen. Even today, thinking about it sends shivers down my spine.

At such times, at crossroads, most of us fallback to our default, the habit - what we know best. Thankfully, my default is to take action - to take back control from my mind. I don't know if it's the right thing to do. Maybe it isn't. But the least I can do is try. It's the only way I know. It's my safe space. It's my starting line.