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Every day you wake up you get to choose who you are anew. You can choose to be a victim of your circumstances, or choose to have agency over them. The choices you've made in the past are irrelevant, today is the only day that matters.
I've been feeling like a victim post surgery, waking up in an oxy fog, helpless, trapped. Arms can't bear weight, can't work out.

Today I got up, took a fucking shower. Deleted apps off my phone again (was using injury as excuse to backslide). No arms? Doing 500 lunges.
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Last week I got in a pretty bad bike accident. Went over handlebars going about 15mph, landed beautifully & got wrecked. Broke both elbows, lost a tooth & left a smear of my face on the road

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