I was moving closer to the goal post dribbling the ball past defenders. A goal seemed inevitable and I was to become the only player in the history of my school to have scored a double hat-trick in a single game. Then all of a sudden I felt a hard hit straight to my shin and fell face first to the ground. I looked at my leg, it looked normal. But when I tried to get up, I just could not. For the next four months I was out of the school team on the grounds of suffering an injury.
I have always been that kind of a person who is found engaging himself in some kind of outdoor activity or another. When I suffered my first major injury, I was dumbfounded because I had a lot of time on my hands but could not use it to go play with my friends. The doctors told me that I had suffered a hairline fracture and that it was not as serious a proper fracture. Yet I could not indulge myself in any serious outdoor or indoor physical activity since it could lead to something even more serious.
Seeing my friends go play everyday while I sat at the window sill had a very negative impact on me. I went into depression and it took a toll on my studies and other extra curricular activities too. Then one day, a friend of mine informed me about yoga and its benefits. It did not even require too much physical activity on my part. I started doing it twice a day - once in the morning and once in the evening and that not only helped me get rid of the negativity and depression but also helped me focus, in turn improving my grades in class, my performance in extra curricular activities and even helped me recover a couple of weeks quicker, believe it or not! I started playing football again and was even back to representing my school in inter school tournaments within no time. In this way a dark night that never seemed to pass, turned into a morning full or sunshine.
