Chapter 942: Reluctant
Laughter surged in the chest, and the gloomy and dull mood became a little brighter.
Smith looked at Levi and hesitated for a moment, "So are you going to convince me like you did with Eric?"
Everyone in the Kansas Chiefs team knows that Lee Wei and Berry have a good relationship, and it was under Levi's encouragement that Berry successfully returned to the game.
Now, is it Smith’s turn again?
Levi looked innocent, "Why do you all think I look like a lobbyist? If I were good at this, my career goal should be in Washington."
After making a complaint, the conversation changed.
"In fact, you don't need me at all, you already have the answer, don't you?"
Levi met Smith's gaze, and Smith frowned in confusion.
“The doctor once said that the best way is to ampute the limb, because the infection is too serious. If you continue to persist, even if you can successfully overcome the difficulty, you will suffer worse and more severe pain than ordinary people in the future.”
"However, you rejected the doctor's advice."
Subconsciously, Smith still has a tenacity and persistence. He grits his teeth and refuses to surrender. It is precisely this spiritual will that helped him win in the playoffs last season. Sai repeatedly broke out energy and reversed the team together. It was the same mental will that helped him firmly grasp a glimmer of life amidst the torment of complications and left a window for himself.
So, Levi believed that Smith already had the answer in his heart.
All the complications disappeared and his condition finally stabilized, but Smith fell into darkness, became irritable and depressed, seemed to have lost hope in life, and refused all help, which made his family suffer too. Suffering, things are far more difficult than imagined.
But in Levi's view, it was a kind of setback, which just proved that Smith was unwilling to accept the reality and could not really give up the hope of returning to the game. It was just that the difficulties before him were too huge and too great. The ordeal was so terrible, and the lingering fear of the aftermath made him panic.
This is human nature.
If it were Levi, he didn't think he could do any better.
Not everyone can always be strong, and not all difficulties can be faced calmly and become insignificant as mentioned in Chicken Soup for the Soul.
They are professional players, but before that, they are also ordinary people, ordinary people who are injured, fragile and afraid.
Smith was stunned and was hit by Levi——
That was his instinctive reaction under the influence of sedatives.
However, it is precisely because it is instinctive that it is more real.
Until the anesthesia wears off and he is fully awake, he truly realizes the quagmire he has fallen into. Pain and despair occupy his brain, dragging his soul into the darkness; when he realizes his cowardice and cowardice, he I began to hate myself, and my anger and irritability could no longer be suppressed.
He didn't even dare to look at himself in the mirror, for fear of seeing a hateful face.
Smith looked away, "You misunderstood. There is no need to over-interpret. I just don't want to use a cane. I will be treated as a disabled person after using a cane all my life. Why don't you just give me a break and end it all."
Levi encountered a wall, but he was not worried. Instead, he showed a smile.
"Of course."
Levi's affirmation made Smith turn his head and look over again, doubting his ears.
Unexpectedly, Li Wei’s face was calm.
“You are speaking on your own behalf, how can I, the outsider, have any chance to refute?”
"No one knows your situation better than you, and you are right."
"In fact, you can choose to retire, and Elizabeth should be very happy. She didn't ask me to come and persuade you to return to the game. Yes, she should very much hope that you will take this opportunity to retire."
"You already have everything."
"A championship ring to prove your ability in a new team. After more than ten years of ups and downs in the league and a career, it would be a good time to retire now."
"You can spend time with your children at home, maybe find a job as a commentator, and maybe find a job as a commentator. Or just enjoy retirement like Peyton Manning. After ten years of long training, you should be allowed to indulge. ""This is good news for Elizabeth."
Slowly, Levi began to describe his daily life after retirement, but Smith couldn't help being stunned, and gradually became lost in Levi's words.
“Look, it’s just like Revis.”
“One day, I suddenly got tired of it and turned around and left resolutely.”
Smith was stunned. Looking at Levi, "Did he say anything to you?"
During the offseason last season, Revis announced his retirement and bid farewell to the league completely. This cannot be said to be breaking news, but it was also unexpected.
In the playoffs of the 2017 season, Revis once again played the key role, proving with practical actions that his sword is still young. Such experienced cornerbacks are still in demand in the league, judging from Revis' greed. , if he wants, he can continue to earn salary in the league for one or two years.
However, Revis did not.
There are almost no friends of Revis in the Kansas Chiefs locker room, so they have no way of knowing what the legendary cornerback is thinking.
Does Revis and Levi still have contact in private?
Under Smith's probing gaze, Levi shrugged slightly, "He just said he was tired of it."
"Injury. Rehabilitation. Competition."
"Then, again. Again."
"Injury. Rehabilitation."
"And he has to prove at all times that he is not greedy. The money monster that the team has become, he is just trying to get paid for what he has earned."
"He was tired of it. So this time he chose to turn around and leave."
Smith paused and couldn't believe his ears, "That's it?"
Levi smiled and nodded gently, "Yes, that's it."
"You can do it too, everyone can. One day, you suddenly get tired of it all, leave a bunch of mess behind, turn around and leave, and say goodbye completely."
"Perhaps, those office workers can't work as workers because they still have a livelihood to maintain; but you don't have it, you don't need it, you can leave now."
"Elizabeth should be very, very happy."
At the door of the ward, Smith's wife Elizabeth Barry stopped, her hands clenched into fists involuntarily, and her heart almost stopped beating——
< br>She wants Smith to retire.
Yes, that's what she thought deep down.
She witnessed her husband struggling on the edge of life and death. She spent seventeen days and nights waiting outside the operating room. She tossed and turned in the dead of night, worrying that Smith might need amputation or even amputation. Disappear at any time.
Those fears, those torments, those pains made her physically and mentally exhausted.
If even she is like this, let alone Smith, who has really experienced all this?
Just taking this opportunity, Smith bids farewell to the football field completely and starts a new life path. Can they embrace more happiness?
However, Elizabeth could not say it because she was worried that it might irritate Smith.
Now, she never expected that Levi would say it, which made Elizabeth's heart clench so hard that she could hardly breathe.
The ward was quiet, without any sound.
(End of this chapter)