A Resilient Man
He was on the floor. Cursing! He couldn’t believe he did it again. He got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and forgot. He forgot that he needed a cane to walk. He forgot the stroke he had last year left the one side of his body useless. He forgot he was no longer a strong able-bodied man.
Buddy's Victory
It was a wrestling match, and the other team had one stud. The 165- pounder was a state champion and looked it. He had enough muscles for a heavyweight, but slimmed down for each match. Our coach shrewdly juggled our line up to win other individual matches but surrendered the 165-pound match by putting Buddy who usually wrestled in the 145-pound class in as The Stud’s opponent. Buddy was a strong boy but was smaller and less-experienced; no one expected him to last beyond the first two-minute period.