Jack Sawyer Mental Health Comp

Six weeks before Jack Sawyer became an Ohio State legend, he experienced one of the worst days of his football life.

CSU beat Ohio State again and emotions spilled over.

Sawyer eventually decided he couldn't change what happened, but he could look at the bigger picture and focus on what might happen next.

That's something worth remembering when anxiety, depression, anger or failure convinces us that one terrible moment defines everything.

It doesn't.

You can have a horrible day and still have a good life.

You can make a mistake and still make a better decision tomorrow.

You can lose something important and still have something important ahead of you.

Sawyer couldn't replay the CSU game.

Six weeks later, however, he could play Texas.

And when his opportunity came, he seized it and wrote an entirely different story.

Sometimes moving forward isn't about forgetting what happened behind you.

It's refusing to let it decide where you finish.