Joshua Citarella

Like those athletes that run with parachutes behind them and then they take the parachute off and they can run faster.

It's a wonderful way to alchemize something that's horrible into something that's beautiful, right?

What a great way to say, you didn't get me.

and I'm going to use you as fuel to make sure that I have an even better life afterward.

I think that's what people hope for.

That's why the story of the soldier that comes back and his friends have been blown up and there's an IED and he needs to do his rehab and then he wins the thing.

He gets the girl.

He does the whatever.

That's why those stories are compelling because you see somebody who had it, lost it, and got it back.

Fuck.

What a romantic enthralling narrative that is.

I think it's great.

But yeah, certainly getting kicked in the nuts a lot will either...

cause you to keel over or sometimes give you the resilience to be able to be kicked in the nuts in future and um sometimes both right like that's certainly something else that i've learned that like there's been times where i've broken down there's been times where i've cried there's been time like lots lots and lots and lots of times i've just stared at the ceiling fan in my bedroom for like hours while i haven't been able to sleep i've been worried about this thing happening yeah and uh

like that's, it's not romantic.

It's not cool.

It's not sexy.

There's no fucking Rocky montage music playing in the background.

Right.

It's just kind of the earning of the keep of health can be a little bit of a wiggly thing sometimes.