Life has a way of shocking you into submission, willfully paralyzed you could say. Events happen to which we cannot prepare nor would we want to consider needing to prepare for the devastating happenings in the first place.
Let’s talk about “Tug Boat” a team mate from soccer, his real name was Josh. Josh and I were the big kids on our team, often trailing behind the pack breathing harder than anyone else to the point on a chilly morning we looked like the stacks of a Tug Boat under full load but never did we give up! I am much taller and he was short and stocky, I always found it amazing his determination to keep up with me and we motivated each other on literally taunting each other to keep going.
We were friends but not super close, and through high school our friendship dwindled to just being acquaintances yet when disaster struck our years of running together came back in a flood.
You see Josh had an accident and it was no fault of his, not in the slightest! The nickname given to him by our coach “Tug Boat” was always so suiting, slow but reliably strong with will power to overcome any situation only to be proven true in the worst of ways.
Josh was driving down the road in his Lincoln Continental with his GF Ashley in the passenger seat and 2 friends in a the back, all four were straight A students. While on the highway a tire exploded, tons of speculation as to why and I believe the tire shop was held at fault, his car ended up going into what racers know as the death roll flipping end over end. Sadly the passengers in the rear died, both Josh and Ashley survived though they were paralyzed from the waist down.
As I said he was always slow and reliable with a will power to overcome any situation and that is exactly what he did. The damage was to sever to regain full mobility but Josh nor Ashley gave up and I put that on the meaning behind the nickname that goes with with story “Tug Boat”. The tugboat is known to be unsinkable, Josh is just that.
I never saw him express anything other than determination to overcome the challenge life set before him, Josh refused to be willfully paralyzed and has gone on to have a very successful career never submitting to anyone or anything.
I will always remember those days running together, it’s his voice I hear when staring at the next hurdle I need to overcome.
Those epic words of his “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” he lives this message still today!
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What a sad story. And it takes a lot of courage to overcome this kind of hurdle life throws at us!
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Life has a unique way to make you react, it hits you in the face if necessary. Life puts us to the test every day.
It is always good to have a completely positive attitude
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