Well, I know it may be time to hang up my volleyball shoes and call it a career.
I didn’t start playing until I was 25 years old.
Now that I’m turning 56, my body is telling me it’s time to stop. I really don’t want to quit, but I’m afraid that if I keep playing, I won’t be able to run or even walk for long. However, my knees don’t have cartilage and grind and hurt after I play, so I can either get knee updates from a local business, which I don’t want to do at all, or stop playing. If my knees are bad, I won’t be able to do my job as a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) tech, so I have to be brave and give up the hobby I loved so much, or else I won’t be able to do my job at the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) supplier. I will put all of my time and energy into music, since I’m a drummer in a band and I know that can be my modern volleyball. The heating supplier was there when I started playing, but she had to stop playing a few years ago when she couldn’t carry heat pumps from the back of the store, where my coworker and I worked. I know I’m now doing the same thing and need to do the same thing so that I don’t spend my later years in a wheelchair next to a beach watching teenagers play. How sad would that be? I’m going to go buy a HEPA filter, so see ya.