Need Inspiration? -- "The Good Hurt: How Ray King lives and plays basketball with cancer"

[OneGrassRoot]

My daughter went to high school with this young man. I ask you to please read. I can't give a better intro to the article, although it deserves one, because I can't type through the tears....



You know how heavy and achy your body feels the morning after a day spent moving from one apartment to another or clearing land or something like that? That’s how Ray King has felt every day for the last few years. And the thing is, he chooses this. As awful as it is, it’s a far better pain than what he felt before, a good hurt that’s helped him survive.

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“He’s a rock,” Williams says later. “Like a boulder. There’s no time off from that guy. Luckily, I normally get to play with him.”
They all feel lucky to play with Ray, the only teammate they’ve ever had with cancer.

They all feel lucky to play with Ray, the only teammate they’ve ever had with cancer—the only player they know of playing Division I basketball with cancer, for that matter—and because he balls so hard that they keep forgetting that he has it.

“Going as hard as he does, it pushes our starters and makes us as a team all that much better,” says Moton. “And he knows he’s probably not gonna play. You gotta talk about how mind-blowing, how selfless, that is. Because most kids who know they’re not gonna play, they don’t go that hard.”


http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/4/3/4178540/ray-king-cancer-profile-nc-central-basketball

[ohtransplant]

1. Amazing story!

This kid is tough as nails and he really has been an inspiration and a blessing to others.

Makes me think about my most recent 24 hours...

"Moton speaks next, preaching and sounding a little like Samuel L. Jackson: 'This boy knows what it is to face your last 24 hours!' he says. 'How would you feel if the last 24 hours had been your last 24 hours? Not good, I’d hope!”

Wow!