a definition

Evan calvo

MD class of 2024

I tried to define grit. To capture, to Measure, to study, that which purports to Keep us sturdy. Nebulous but so real. I don’t know if I succeeded. I tried.

Will you say I have grit since I pushed on After falling down? What if I said that I quit shortly thereafter? Do I still Have grit? Or did I once, but no longer?

Maybe no one has grit. Grit. Gritty. Will You say I am Gritty? Orange beard — coarse, Dirty — resting on my hockey jersey? Or is that the wrong gritty? Who can say?

Years spent and gray hairs earned defining grit — I don’t know if I succeeded; I tried.