Whatever you think

All action stems from thought, even if the action is unintended, even if the thought itself is unthinking. The question, then, is not what to think, but how.

It’s true that I, a man of six-foot-three, will never get to be like Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics, and that you, a five-foot-six woman, will never play basketball in the NBA.

Made peace with the fact I will never emulate Nadia Comaneci from 1976. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

But between the extremes of what is now or was forever impossible, between t…