#for 2 weeks i thot my vacation was this week & 2day at work found out its next week. so i wrote extensive notes abt buck struggling w adhd

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Imagine your entire life, you’ve been running a race. Everyone else seems to be doing fine; those at the lead are putting in consistent work, those in the back are choosing to take it easy. You, however, are barely scraping by in the middle of the pack and are exhausted. You’re pumping twice as hard as those in front of you, sweating buckets onto the relaxed faces behind you, and you can’t even keep pace, let alone catch up.

One day, someone comes along and says: maybe racing isn’t for you, but I see you’ve been running with 10lb weights on your legs. Have you tried a sport that’s about strength?

You look down. You are the only one with weights on your legs. You switch to weightlifting, and the precise thing that made your life impossible is what now allows you to thrive.

This is what it is to be Evan Buckley when he discovers he was born to be a firefighter.