People love you because of the way you jump and run; when you lose it, you no longer mean anything. That’s the hardest part: to be so alienated from your own body that you look at your physique, feel in your bones that it can’t do what it was once able to do, and know that your value and worth in the eyes of others will be diminished. The question is, how can we free ourselves from having our physical ability be the final word on how we see ourselves?
