Lol ever heard the Rod Stewart song "I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger", I was the best player I had ever been in my life, by a distance, at the ripe old age of 39
not physically obviously, but technique, control with either foot, finishing with either foot.
I literally spent 2 years in which I was never without a ball, I played 5 a side twice a week, I trained for 4 hours twice a week, relentlessly practicing technique, I stretched and reflexed for over an hour every day and I'd play keep the ball up and sevens in the living room of my flat for an hour every day, yes in my flat, that's how good my control was
The thing about hypomania is, you're never ever tired, you have boundless energy, you can sleep for just 3 or 4 hours for months on end and never be tired despite all of that training and going to work and being brilliant for 8 hours non stop every day.
The other thing about hypomania is, if anyone's read the NYT article, is every small success and improvement drives and feeds it and makes you push harder and harder and harder to reach new levels and achieve new and bigger goals, you are quite literally a superhuman absolutely fucking relentless machine, and it is absolutely brilliant
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