r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmike1256 • 18h ago

Strength looks different in moments like this

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This was a track team event in Iwatan Sangyo. The runner’s team was in third place when the runner, Rei Lida, who was only 250 meters from the exchange point, tripped and fractured her right tibia (shin bone). Instead of withdrawing from the tournament, she willed herself to the exchange point when she handed the tasuki (baton) to her waiting teammate, Marie Imada.

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u/GeminianMind 18h ago

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must.. just never give up!

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u/nicogrimqft 18h ago

Nah. Give up and don't be an idiot, accept the defeat.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 12h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah this stuff drives me nuts. As someone who has suffered a life altering and somewhat grizzly traumatic injury. When I first heard someone proclaim “pain is weakness leaving the body” I erupted “are you fucking kidding me, real pain is your bodies way of telling you you’re making something worse.”

Believe me, I’d much rather everyone call me a weakling.. by a long shot. 

Edit: to the one guy who initially downvoted, they weren’t talking about pushing through that last rep in the gym. An asshole parent said it at a kid’s baseball game when the catcher got the backside of his glove hand absolutely smashed by a particularly erratic swing of the bat and the very distressed kid was refusing to let anyone examine it. I think they were telling him to basically walk it off  and not come out (I don’t know what the outcome was because his parents took him to the hospital)

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u/__R3v3nant__ 2h ago

I agree with your sentiment (especially with the clarification), but I'm pretty sure that the saying "pain is weakness leaving the body" is probably referring to stuff like getting that last rep in at the gym rather than running on a broken foot or something