552 Youthful Years

When you're young, happiness is just happiness, sadness is just sadness, and disgust is just disgust; all emotions seem simple and straightforward.

Until one day, you start to comprehend the complex feelings that are bittersweet, that make you laugh through tears, that overwhelm and can't be controlled, and then you grow up. Only then do you understand the adult world, where emotions are complicated and entangled, where joy and sorrow can occur at the same time, and liking and disliking too.

Mahomes had been looking forward to this day, eager and ready to go, even the slightest possibility of becoming the starting quarterback set his blood boiling. He trained harder and more devotedly during this time, surprisingly keeping up with the pace of the drills, wholeheartedly awaiting the official announcement of Smith's successful transfer.

However, when the day finally arrived, Mahomes thought he would be ecstatic, but he suddenly found that he wasn't as happy as he had imagined.