"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - M. Kathleen Casey
I was thinking about age and it's relevance today after a good talk with my friend and personal trainer Jo Dumont. I had been noticing that certain areas of my body hurt is strange and new and wonderful ways. While the pain in my left knee wasn't new, the pain in my right ankle was.
The injuries that I sustained to these body parts were many years ago. The knee that got torqued the wrong way, the ankle that had been broken, far from memory now, suddenly rearing their head as I started using those parts of my body again, in running, and working out. It got me thinking that these injuries didn't plague me through my young adult years, I bounced back from both of these injuries rather handily, so why are they bugging me now.
So I started thinking about change, and to change something now also means a change to something that you've done in the past and you need to get in there and root around and dig things up. Maybe physiological change is a lot the same way. You've got to dig back to those old injuries that you ignored before, give them the attention they deserve and make them stronger, so that you too are made stronger.
I wonder if that's true?
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