Kyle Carpenter

And it's got to lead you somewhere good.

It's got to lead you to that light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah, absolutely.

The mental side of it, emotional side of it, but also how am I going to do buttons now, which is maybe I went from the Taliban being my enemy to buttons being my biggest enemy now.

But so the physical side of it as well.

But, you know, like so many things in life, there is two sides to that story.

There was the daunting, the unknown, the difficult side of it.

But there was the side that, although it's kind of heavy to be told, hey, you have three more years left here for us to kind of put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

But that also gave me time to think about all of that.

To think about that perspective, which if I had to summarize my journey in one word, it would be that because- Perspective.

Correct.

Because I could look at, you know, it's always-

foundationally it's, well, I'm here.

Yeah.

when I thought that I wasn't going to be.

You shouldn't be.

Correct.

Yeah.

But then it gets to, and some of this came from those I recovered with.

Yeah.