I'm bent over, but I'm getting a running start.

By: Galli, Lorenzo Scott

There are moments when life doesn't ask you if you're ready; it simply takes the ground from under your feet and leaves you suspended above a void that smells of fog and frozen iron. In those moments, the world shrinks. Colors are gone, the sound of tomorrow is gone. There's only the cold that seeps into your bones and a voice in your head that keeps telling you that your absence is worth more than your presence.
This book was born on that bridge. It was born from the breath that becomes a cloud and from the legs you no longer feel, at the exact point where a man decides that his worth is measured by an insurance policy and not by kisses exchanged at night before bed.
But this book isn't about an ending. It's about what happens when that void is shattered by a cry. The cry of a daughter, five feet tall, courageous, who grabs your hand and brings you back to the world of the living, not with reproaches, but with the strength of a "togetherness" that brooks no reply.
"I'm bent over, but I'm getting a running start" is the story of a return from hell. It's the tale of how a family can mend its rifts when the silence is finally broken. But it's also the story of an unusual guide.
Because salvation, sometimes, doesn't have a human voice. It has the striped fur of a cat named Tigger, a being who doesn't judge your failures, but watches over your soul with the ferocity of an ancient sentinel. Tigger, who sees what we humans have forgotten how to see. Tigger, who knows that beneath the soil of our failures is often buried the treasure needed to start over.
In the pages that follow, you'll find fear, mud, and gold. You'll find the logic of a son who brings you back to earth and the embrace of a wife who won't let you go, even when you're the one who wants to run away first.
If today you feel bowed down under the weight of debt, guilt, or a seemingly insurmountable exhaustion, remember these pages. You're not down. You're just in the lowest position, the one needed to push yourself forward and get back on track.
Because the greatest race always begins when you thought you were out of breath.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GD12N7S8
• ISBN13: 9798241753137
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"