Life is about getting back up

I got a hip injury over a year ago when I fell off of a wall that I was climbing on. (I was at a bouldering gym). My hip still hurts from it, and there are some exercises I can’t do. I had been avoiding going to the doctor to avoid getting the coronavirus and / or being told I needed to see more doctors. But today, I’m going to see one, and maybe she’ll tell me my hip needs to be replaced. I don’t know.

But I’m going because this isn’t going to get better on its own (probably). If it were, it would have already. I still have hopefully 70 more years left, so am I really going to let this be with me for that long just out of stubbornness? And I will probably have many more injuries and health setbacks in my life—am I going to avoid taking care of those, or just pretend they won’t happen?

No. Life is about getting back up after you fall down, about facing injury and all its pain and annoyingness, and about appreciating recovery as an equally normal partner to good health, not an unnatural one.