Eddie Pinero

these outcomes constitute your greatest adversary.

So for the sake of all that is meaningful, go push into the questions and the risk and the curiosity that makes life worth living.

After all, it is not about failure.

There are moments in life that feel like endings.

But what if they're simply the next version of you?

A question that brings me right to the present moment.

It's funny how something so small can undo something so sacred.

This time, it's something as arbitrary as back spasms.

A sharp pain when I breathe in that kind of moves different places in my upper left back to my lat shoulder.

And at first it was, you know, kind of an afterthought.

It was like, okay, you know, it'll heal, I'll be fine in a few days.

After all, part of getting older and lifting is working around these things.

You're never 100% perfect.

But it's been almost three weeks now.

And instead of healing, it's getting worse, right?

It hurts to sleep, hurts to breathe.

Even thinking about a pull-up feels like betrayal.

And...

Here's the part worth examining.

I didn't think it would hit this hard.