You'd rather lose the ability to:
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not being able to jump is a bummer but basically like having really bad knees, you can live with it
not being able to swim? to Convene with the Sea, the Sacred Mother we all came from? to be able to go Home?
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nothing can quite replace a trip to the ocean tho
when you first dive down; kick, kick, kick, you're 10 ft down, 15, 20
you touch the sandy ocean floor and turn
you look around; watch the sun rays filter through the water as you slowly float up
you can feel it
you're home
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as someone with bad knees I don’t find myself needing to jump that often, but swimming? You can never take that away from me
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If you can't swim you also can't surf, kayak, even walking over a bridge could be sketchy. There's tradeoffs to not being able to jump, but they're not in the same league as far as I'm concerned.
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