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The Hardest Part Is Not Leaving — It Is Coming Back

Nails Everywhere: Whenever I walk around campus with my colleagues, I sometimes pick a colour and say, “That colour is everywhere today.” It usually annoys them. They start pointing out all the other shades I am ignoring — and they are mostly right. But that is exactly the point. Your focus shapes your reality. Give your mind a frame, and it will fill the world to match it. When you hold a hammer, suddenly you see nails everywhere. You start living in a world made almost entirely of them. Slow Recovery: In sports, ligament and tendon injuries are notoriously slow to heal. They do not receive a constant flood of repair materials through the bloodstream. There is no quick fix, no overnight turnaround. Healing is not just about closing damage — it is about careful, internal realignment. You cannot yell at a ligament to knit itself back together faster. It happens on its own timeline.  — — — Life has a way of testing every part of you at once — your family, your work, your sense of sel...