This is what the next ten years look like if you stay where you are.
You become the dad who watches.
The one who sits on the sideline while your kid plays. Then on the sideline of their life. They stop coming to you to play, because they already know you can't. You're not the role model for health in your own family — you're the cautionary tale.
You concede to a life of pain and immobility. You miss family activities. You stop turning up to the things you used to live for. You become known as the bloke with the bad back. The one with the bad knees.
Your confidence drops. Not just physically — everywhere. Because when you can't trust your body to face adversity, you stop trusting yourself to face anything. That bleeds into work. Into your relationship. Into how you see yourself in the mirror.
You become overweight, and you blame it on your back. But quietly, you know it's not the back. You were failed by the system. And no one ever showed you another way.