Doing the Right Thing is Stupid and Nearly Killed Me — Here’s What I Wish I’d Done

Living the good life > “doing it right”

Photo by Tim Goedhart on Unsplash

The entire left side of my body is glowing with white-hot pain. I can’t take a breath. I’m drowning in dry air. My left leg is mangled; my femur is shattered and the foot is hanging on by a thread. My visor is missing and the raindrops are coming through my…