At the end of 2022, everyone was wrapping up the year and welcoming the new one. Yet the members of the Chinese National Table Tennis Team remained locked away at the Lingshui training base, practicing day in and day out to prepare for the upcoming tournaments.
If you were to slice through a cross-section of time, time seemed to stand still for these athletes. Their daily lives were so strictly regimented and repetitive that what they did yesterday was almost identical to what they had done three or five years ago.
Yet if you zoomed out to view the grander cinematic scale of their lives, time was like an express train roaring right over them—fierce as the wind, surging relentlessly forward.
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