By Judah Moye
Edit This Summer Intern
I am not just anyone, but I am someone. I am building something so that I can do anything. I’m breaking bones, oozing blood, and spilling tears to live, laugh, love, and enjoy who I want to be. I’m not the average high school graduate, nor am I average in any way. Coming from a long maroon line, I recently graduated from Lewisville High School in Texas.
I initially wanted to transfer to our rival, Marcus High School, but not doing so created a pivotal moment in my life that I will never regret.
The memories, the people, the culture, and the pain are some of the things I’ll never forget.
Many black athletes come from broken households and single parents. I live with my sister and mother; we are an indestructible trio. I became the man of the household and unconsciously started to build a standard of what a man, husband, boyfriend, and father should look like. I began to put down the pleasures of being a child and started to run into the portal of manhood. In searching for this mysterious figure’s identity, I began to soul search as I faced life’s poisonous darts – quickly understanding the art of a warrior in this battle with life. Life pushes you toward fates that the best thing you can do is to accept.
Usually, I’m a game changer, and I hate conforming. Naturally, I’m an executor. Honestly, I’m never a quitter. Unfortunately, the question, “Is it worth it?” rang in my head over the decision to continue playing football. “Get rich quick” was the mentality I carried with me until I started to believe, “Work hard.” I worked hard, especially in sports, but it didn’t carry me to my dreams like it did for so many famous athletes. I shattered my ankle for the fifth time, had multiple surgeries, and couldn’t walk for nearly two years – all during the peak of my career.
Being told that NFL stands for “Not For Long” really had me expecting things to be over, but I never would’ve thought so soon. The biggest battle I ever had to fight was me vs me.
Those battles were the ones that kept me up at night. They made me cry tears that not even an ocean could catch and buried me in emotions.
This is how I started writing! Stereotypically, most men are terrified of expressing and releasing emotions. As cliché as this will sound, writing helped me find my voice – a voice that was once drowning in silence.
Writing helped me redirect and redefine my passions, my purposes, and my why. I was able to step up and over this tragic event by understanding, acknowledging, and releasing the pain that had me chained against what was.
Writing was therapeutic, and now it’s a transition into a testimonial.
I write for people who live in moments similar to mine and always try to remind them that everything will be OK. Writing distributes balance in the foundational aspects of my life. Writing is my passion.
Since my career-ending injuries, I’m gearing up to make my presence known at The University of Texas at Arlington while I pursue a business major in finance. Passionate about how commerce functions and real estate, I’m picking up nuggets and answers, collecting crumbs to eventually make an empire.
During this time, I also didn’t just believe in “working hard,” but now I’m more focused on education and experience. That’s where true wealth lies, which is in the power of the mind.
“Never give up, never back down.” I never quit my dreams; I have only been redirected toward something far more significant than I could imagine.
I’m not where I want to be, but I am no longer where I was. I will keep going, and I won’t stop!
Thank you for reading!
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