David/Perfection/Health

Seeing Michelangelo’s #David, I am not ashamed to say that my eyes filled with tears as him as I approached him for the first time

In the glow of that perfect form, I could not help but long for the superhero warrior that I used to be. In this battle we must admit that we will never reach the perfection of perfect health again. That said with all of our many flaws there is a maximum healthful state that we can all obtain and that should be our goal. We want to reach a place were we minimize pain, keep our brains sharp, build endurance, regain our agility and experience joy again. Ignoring the obvious giant slaying metaphor that would also work great here, I imagine that David at some point just like us imprisoned. With each other help and guidance we can remove or smooth over our imperfections and all like David reach our maximum healthful state.

#Prisoners

TBI has made us prisoners of the symptoms and the many likely comorbidities associated with getting our heads smacked. Recently visiting the #Accademia gallery in Florence Italy,

Accademia gallery Florence

I had two revelations. Featured there were 4 unfinished marble statues by the incomparable #Michelangelo. They are called the slaves or the prisoners. Michelangelo believed that there was a perfect form in every piece of marble and that he was liberating them with his hammer and chisel. I couldn’t shake the kinship I felt with these characters because their near perfect forms are permanently trapped by heavy, disfiguring imperfections analogous to the symptoms, disabilities and assorted comorbidities from #TBI. We are prisoners.

Us Tough Guys have become Michelangelo's protégées and this blog is the studio where we learn from masters how to reveal that most perfect form.