Legendary Rafael Nadal’s final number 14 victory at Roland Garros brought to light a very interesting topic by his hero. He became more “hero” than ever before. And when everyone thought he was going to announce his retirement after the tournament, what he explained was that he was living with an intense pain in his foot that was the product of a strange disease that very few people suffered from. He said he was able to “override” this, thanks to the collaboration of his doctor and medical science, who numbed the area to prevent him from feeling pain during the tournament.
But in addition to the public transfer of the world’s greatest representative of titanic effort and the thesis of never giving up, like Rafael Nadal, the important thing our champion has shown us is that many people who suffer permanently every day. And that they are forced to follow treatments, be forced to use medication to reduce pain, and live every day from the moment they wake up to the time they go to bed. When Nadal himself was asked about the degree of pain, he replied that there were days when they got along better than others, but “the pain was always there”, which is a real torture that makes it difficult to pay attention to other things. in life. , for example, the work activity itself, relations with others, etc.
What is normal in these situations is the deterioration of the character of the sufferer. But at this point Rafael Nadal teaches another lesson as a champion, as he further expands his symbolic figure in command, even though he went through this pain from 2005 – 17 years ago – and no character changes were noticed in his relationships with others. worldwide admiration, not just for his game, but above all for his way of being and how he went through a real ordeal of living with lasting pain.
Nadal himself gave an open-minded example of this, and it was when his opponent, Zverev, suffered an injury in the semi-finals, severely sprained his ankle and severely injured his ligaments while returning a demonic ball from Nadal. He pointed out that this was a “temporary” injury and the player himself would have known that his doctors would give him a reasonable amount of time to come out. But the one lasting pain that he has and that many people go through is the pain you live with that you know will not go away. It’s there from the moment you get up and go to bed, and as with most of our seniors because of age, there are also younger people who have a permanent injury for one reason or another. Some are due to illness, others as a result of an accident or other circumstances.
What is clear is that it should be noted that life is lived differently when people live with persistent pain, and it can be physical as well as psychological, for example in the form of pain suffered by many people. They have lost a child because a child’s death before his or her parents is the greatest pain they can ever suffer and is an irreversible and permanent pain and damage that cannot be treated with time and medication. nor with anything. There is no methodology to treat this moral and psychological pain. And they will live with it until they die.
Therefore, there is a big difference between temporary pain that goes away with time and pain that stays in your body and in your life forever, because the latter is very difficult to bear and endure. Thus, the example of Nadal, whose face and character is not changed by this suffering, is an oxygen valve for those who suffer daily like him, and reinforces the charisma of those whose strength and strength are at their full potential. There is no doubt that those who are very strong mentally are much more prepared to face these evils, but there are people who do not have this mental strength, but who, by Nadal’s example, help them gain strength and look at themselves in that mirror. our champion. Perhaps this is Nadal’s best legacy. He won more than 22 championships. Sure.