Roughly a year and a half ago, George Clooney thought he was toast. It happened in Sardinia, a scenic Italian island chosen as a filming location for Catch-22. Clooeny was riding his motorcycle to the set when a car turned directly in front of him, launching Clooney, an experienced rider, off his bike.
Here’s how Clooney described it in a recent GQ interview: “I launched. I go head over heels. But I landed on my hands and knees. If you did it 100 times, maybe once you land on your hands and knees, and any other version you land, you're toast. It knocked me out of my shoes.” Clooney wasn’t kidding, he literally lost his shoes in the accident. A more worrying aspect of the accident, however, was the fact that Clooney smashed the car’s windshield with his helmet, while his head was still in it… “When I hit the ground,” Clooney said, “my mouth—I thought all my teeth were broken out. But it was glass from the windshield.”
While Clooney is still in recovery, and was recently operated on for a disc issue caused by the accident, pain management has been an everyday part of Clooney’s life for the past 15 years. His attitude towards it, however, is one that we could all learn from in these trying times. “Basically,” Clooney said, “the idea is, you try to reset your pain threshold. Because a lot of times what happens with pain is you're constantly mourning for how it used to feel.”
Clooney made the conscious decision to accept the pain and discomfort as the new normal, rather than continuously mourn the loss of how things used to be. We can’t think of a better analogy for coping with the year that has been, and hope Clooney can serve as an inspiration for everyone.
Want to be entertained and stay entertained? Visit our online library at Librange for a wide variety of ebooks, audiobooks, music, and more. Accessible anytime, anywhere, from your favorite devices.
No comments:
Post a Comment