Pain makes you more human and aware of limits. Everyone knows, but when you feel it on yourself it becomes a terrifying experience. To read the interview to the “cannibal” Marc Marquez, he used to devour his opponents, now he exploits their wake: “It is the law of sport: when one suffers, he tries to survive. The weakest takes advantage of the strongest, and in qualifying I chose Vinales, the best: they used to follow me. Now it’s my turn”.
The interview talks about his pain of realizing how difficult it is to do normal activities like shaving or playing with dogs. He has learned that his head tells him things, which then his body still can’t. It’s like putting old software on a different machine, it doesn’t work.
You understand what it’s like to have a fixed idea, how you go in an instant from the joy of progress to the sadness of realizing how far away you still are from how you were. In an instant your life has changed, and you keep trying to think like you did before the accident, it’s depressive, you’re no longer able to do what you want to do.
Marquez’s struggle is to learn to live with this new awareness of his limits and to continue the treatment to reach a complete rehabilitation, he must also learn to believe in it knowing that all this is not certain.
Will he be able to become the cannibal even of his shadow, which continually puts doubts in his mind?
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