THE THOUGHT OF GIVING UP

Last Sunday I lay on my back bleeding from my mouth running my tongue through my teeth to check if I had lost one of my teeth, my upper lip had split and I knew something was wrong with my left big toe...I guess you can tell when there's something wrong. I think I had blacked it in the middle of the fall, all I could remember was the ball coming towards me, I saw Alvin running for the flick on I jumped and boom next time I open my eyes am on the floor and all it took was 5 minutes....I had been on the pitch for 5 minutes!!!!

Four weeks before give or take I got an mcl grade two tear(medial collateral ligament) grade 2 for those who don't know is when u partially tear the ligament on your knee and well it hurts and you have to be out for four to 8  weeks and that was our 1st pre-season game. So there' me lying on my back bleeding and thinking Junior maybe it’s time for you to give up on this dream, obviously things aren't going well, am busting my chops off to be in the best shape I can be but injury after injury maybe, I dare not say but maybe I should give up.

Now you have to understand for me to even think that is taboo in my mind, football to me is like water to a fish. fish - water = death, OK I wouldn't die but it would take what I think and know is my identity, I believe that GOD gave everyone something that makes them happy regardless of the circumstance or would like to think that you do, well to me that's football, to be honest I don't think I have found anything in my life that rivals the feeling of scoring a goal, don't know if that's a bad thing but I can’t explain it, its magical!! So after the ref saw that I wasn't getting up and maybe the sight of blood on my shirt he blew the whistle they carried me off tried to patch my lip which I must say looked horrible, I told one of the coaches there's something wrong with my toe, so they removed my ADIDAS fair plays( Adidas hope you see that am endorsing you lol)  removed my socks and guess what, my big toe is dislocated facing the opposite direction and the dude that's working on me has the nerve to ask....is that how your toe normally looks!!!!??? Because am in pain I don't really have my sarcastic answer so I say no, he rubs some stuff on it and then snaps it back!

so not to drag on I felt really down that all that had happened but read somewhere that when your almost about to give up is when your break through is around the corner, so I guess what am trying to say is that a lot of things happen to us one after another and sometimes we get the thought of giving up but don't tie a knot and hold on sooner than later it will get better. 3 days after the whole ordeal I was back to practice, my lip still looks like a bad lip job lol but will survive am thankful that it wasn't a major injury and still chasing that elusive first season goal and its coming soon. BE BLESSED.