Finding possibility in life’s forced pauses, by AD
Meditative Story
WaitWhat
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As a WNBA player, AD is used to saying, “I’m good” as an automatic response, no matter the injury. It’s what allows them to be a successful athlete, and to wrap their whole self around that identity. But when basketball is fully stripped away from them, they have to look inward to explore who they are — and the full range of identity available to them.
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| 0:00.0 | The crowd is super loud. |
| 0:08.0 | The court feels electric. |
| 0:11.0 | Under the bright lights, sweat drips from my forehead, |
| 0:19.0 | as I sprint to the other side of the court. |
| 0:21.6 | I glance up at the scoreboard. |
| 0:24.6 | We're behind, but we're still in this. AD is a WNBA player who spends their life committed to their love of basketball |
| 0:47.1 | their unrelenting passion for the sport means that as they grow up up, being a basketball player feels like their whole |
| 0:56.4 | identity. In this week's episode, AD shares the story of what happens when basketball is taken |
| 1:03.3 | away from them, and they learn how our identity doesn't have to be all or nothing. |
| 1:09.4 | AD discovers that there's a whole spectrum of ways of being available to us, |
| 1:14.7 | and many ways we can express who we are. |
| 1:19.4 | In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, |
| 1:24.6 | breathtaking music, and mindfulness prompts, so that we may see our lives reflected back to us |
| 1:31.1 | in other people's stories. And that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives. |
| 1:39.1 | From Wait What, this is meditative story. |
| 1:45.3 | I'm Rohan and I'll be your guide. The body relaxed, the body breathing. |
| 2:11.6 | The body breathing. |
| 2:15.6 | Your senses open, your mind open. |
| 2:20.3 | Meeting the world. |
| 2:31.3 | I stare up at the clock on the front wall of my social studies classroom. |
| 2:38.0 | 30 more minutes. |
| 2:41.0 | I run my hand along the edge of my desk, feel the weird scrapes and scratches that have been dug into the wood. |
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