Man, hearing about Patric Young, that whole situation, it really stuck with me. I remember scrolling through stuff online, maybe back in 2022, and seeing the news. Big guy, incredible athlete, you know? Played overseas, worked for ESPN later on.
Then boom. Car crash. Right before his wedding, too, like 10 days before. Just awful timing. Suddenly, life completely flipped. Paralyzed from the waist down. Seeing pictures later, him in that wheelchair… tough stuff. Hard to wrap your head around how someone just adapts to that.
Thinking About Sudden Changes
It got me thinking about how things can just change on a dime. Not the same scale, obviously, nothing close. But it reminded me of this one time, years ago, I was working on this huge project. Poured everything into it for months, maybe close to a year.
This thing was my baby:
- Late nights, weekends, the whole deal.
- Coordinating with a bunch of different people.
- We were so close to the finish line. Like, days away from launch.
Then, out of nowhere, funding got pulled. Just like that. Management decided to go in a completely different direction. All that work, gone. Poof. It felt like getting the rug pulled out from under me. Seriously demoralizing.
I remember just sitting there, stunned. Didn’t know what to do next. Felt like a total failure, you know? Took me a while to sort of… process it. Had to pick myself up, figure out what the next step was. Wasn’t easy. Had to find a new project, basically start over from scratch mentally.
Seeing Patric Young, though, puts things in perspective. He went through something infinitely harder. And now he’s got that PY4Foundation, trying to help other folks going through massive life changes. Takes some serious strength to not just get through something like that, but to turn around and try to lift others up. Really makes you think about resilience, doesn’t it?
