The light from the stars is not dazzling. The soft and round halo is like pebbles in a crystal clear stream, gurgling in the velvet-textured canopy. The countless faint lights make people completely forget about the action of "counting"
, just immersed in it.
Hula la.
A breeze blew across my face, and in an instant it seemed as if all the stars in the world had fallen. I couldn't help but stretch out my right hand, as if I had returned to my childhood, innocently believing that as long as I stood on my tiptoes high enough, I could touch the stars.
Feel the temperature of the stars with your fingertips.
In a daze, goosebumps appeared on the surface of the skin, and reason returned to the mind. Only then did he realize that he was naive, but he was not shy or reserved, he was just deeply immersed in this brilliance.
, completely forget all your worries for the time being and simply enjoy the moment.
"Gawain, what are you worried about?"
MacDonald turned to look at his friend, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and asked with concern, but Gawain didn't know why, and instead looked back in confusion. MacDonald thought for a while, and organized his words.
"You seem... to have a sense of urgency, which is the case every time you train. Of course, this is not to say that this is not a good thing. It is a good thing to go all out in training, but... but, too much is never enough, you know, right? I just
It feels like you are worried about something and want to grasp something."
After saying that, Macdonald was a little worried, worried that he had said the wrong thing and violated Gawain's privacy, so he quickly apologized.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to criticize you..."
Gawain chuckled, "I know, Mike from Canada."
A word of ridicule made Macdonald laugh, and his reserved expression relaxed a little.
Gawain thought about it seriously, and then showed a shallow smile, with a little bitterness, "Maybe, maybe I do have a sense of urgency, I just..."
After exhaling a long breath, Gawain turned his head and looked at Macdonald, his eyes so bright in the night.
"I just want to cherish every day I stand on the court, because none of us can be sure what will happen in the future: whether we will become professional players, or whether we will say goodbye to tennis after graduation, or whether it will happen because of a sudden...
Injuries change the course of life.”
"Mike, competitive sports are full of charm, but they are also cruel."
Gawain, you are serious.
According to the trajectory of the previous life, tomorrow, February 15th, the Bruins will challenge the University of Oklahoma Sooners away in the small town of Norman, Oklahoma.
At that time, Gao Wen, who will serve as the sixth singles player, will appear in the game. Then during the game, Gao Wen accidentally sprained his knee while desperately saving the ball. The pain was unbearable. After diagnosis by the team doctor, Gao Wen was forced to withdraw from the game - losing the game.
After the game, the Bruins lost another game, eventually losing to their opponents with a score of "3:4", ushering in their first defeat of the season.
At the same time, Gao Wen went to the hospital for an MRI, which later confirmed that his knee ligament was slightly torn, which became a turning point in his entire career.
Although after recuperation and rehabilitation, Gao Wen still caught up with the National Championship Game in May Madness and competed with the team; however, injuries posed hidden dangers, and he later experienced varying degrees of knee hydration, cruciate ligament tears, etc.
Injuries, surgeries and rehabilitation begin to take up a major part of life.
Later, he was forced to give up tennis and never returned to the court.
As he said, one injury put him and MacDonald on completely different life trajectories.
Everything will happen tomorrow.
Since his rebirth, Gawain himself has not noticed it, but the day of "February 15th" is like a sharp sword hanging above his head, oppressing him all the time, penetrating into his daily training and life bit by bit.
all aspects of.
If it happens again, will he make the same mistake again?
Maybe, maybe not, Gawain has no answer, but the only thing Gawain can be sure of is that he will not escape, he will not let the shadow of his previous life trap him. After finally winning a second chance, he refuses to stay.
He refuses to regret even if it is too late, he must bravely face the difficulties.
MacDonald looked at his friend in front of him with a smile and clear eyes. Although he was a little bitter and helpless, the vitality was shining in the depths of his eyes, which made MacDonald not only sigh but also get excited.
"Mike, do you believe in dreams?"
Gawain spoke, but without waiting for Macdonald's answer, he continued.
"I want to believe that, just like Rudy, it doesn't matter even if he is considered a fool."
"Every day, when I stand on the court, I want to cherish every minute, go all out and seize the moment firmly in front of me."
Daniel-'Rudy'-Ruettiger, an ordinary boy with no height, no weight and no talent, dreams of becoming a player at the University of Notre Dame, a traditional NCAA football school. This is almost
An impossible dream that even his family and friends laughed at him.
However, after three years of hard work, Rudy became a sparring partner for the University of Notre Dame football team - unable to play in games and not even considered a formal sparring partner for the team. However, he persisted, just for the sake of the future.
One day, being able to stand on the field wearing a Notre Dame jersey.
As a senior, in the last game of Rudy's college career, he was still not shortlisted and was still a dispensable partner; however, his diligence, perseverance and spirit moved his teammates.
His teammates used the threat of refusing to play to get Rudy a spot on the roster.
Later, twenty-seven seconds before the end of the game, when Notre Dame had already secured victory, the coach still refused to let Rudy play. However, the entire team and the audience cheered for Rudy.
After winning a valuable opportunity to appear, Rudy appeared——
Not only did he play, but he also successfully sacked the opponent's quarterback, ending the game.
In just twenty-seven seconds, it was the most shining and glorious moment in Rudy's life.
After the game, his teammates lifted Rudy high and left the field. That was 1975. Since then, no player has been able to enjoy such treatment.
In Rudy, there is a foolish courage, the courage to be laughed at, despised and spurned by people, just like a fool, but it is this courage that makes Rudy's life shine with unparalleled light.
Perhaps, in the eyes of those realists, the flash point of "twenty-seven seconds" is meaningless at all, not equivalent to so many years of hard work, and not worth it.
But the real reality is that Rudy's family was originally just blue-collar workers in the steel factory, passed down from generation to generation, but because of Rudy's success, his family's views changed. Later, with Rudy's encouragement and support, his younger brother
All my sisters went to college, which changed their lives.
Those twenty-seven seconds are never just twenty-seven seconds.
Later, this true story was adapted into a movie, "Chasing Dreams from the Heart of a Child".