up lifting. we are commonly in the past, sports have been an escape from those feelings from anxiety or depression. this year, something changed in a very healthy way. you could almost call it a movement the way prominent athletes across nearly every professional sport have come forward with great courage, great honesty about their own struggles, reminding us, as the saying goes, that it is okay to not be okay. the athletes in 2021 have shown people nothing else, it's that depression, opening sight, suicidal thoughts and other battles people are fighting, it can happen to anyone, even the people who experienced the most success in their respective professions from grand slam winner naomi osaki wrote about her anxiety after pulling out of the french open to those decorative gymnasts of all time simone biles doing so at the