The Game of Life

It's 1:20PM and the majority of kids have yet to show up for the afternoon session of summer camp. I'm feeling nice today, so I decided to let them play another round of Life, which, if played to the end, lasts more than an hour.

These kids are wound so tight during the school months, I thought it would be refreshing to them to sit back and play a board game with new friends. they REALLY enjoy it. Most of them have told me that they rarely play board games, especially with friends. It's nice seeing them having genuine fun with kids they probably wouldn't be hanging out with otherwise.

The Game of Life is complicated!! I remember being confused as a kid, try explaining the rules to Korean kids when the entire game is in English. I just let them play however they want which results in them having a blast.

A small part of me feeels guilty for not covering all of the material in the workbook that I was supposed to for today, but most of me doesn't care. The kids are having fun, and I am sore and tired from a few tough workouts.

I consider myself lucky to have finished 4 weeks of the Turbo Fire without any injuries. Although I have been a little sore here and there, I've also been surprised with how great I've felt. I was expecting to be tight every morning, but so far, so good.

Until 2 days ago.

It's not even muscle pain. It's my scar tissue. I had kidney surgery when I was 9 years old which has left me with a 6 inch scar on my back. Although it's been 16 years, the scar tissue never healed and it has caused me some pain, especially during sports. Now that I have been increasing my punching and side bends, the scar tissue is sore again. Really sore. This is actually a good thing, since I am breaking up scar tissue that should have been broken up years ago. This is a painful, but necessary thing if I want to eliminate pain in the future.

Even though the past two nights have been incredibly painful, I am pushing through and counting my blessings that this is the only pain I have dealt with thus far. Hopefully with each week that goes by the pain will decrease, but we'll see.

I think it's going to get more painful before it gets better.