The cost is not in coaching or tournaments; it is in the quiet surrender of everything else. My father sold his prized guitar to fund my last state championship, and the silence in our house after that was louder than any loss. I became a rated player, yes, but the real price was seeing the worry in my mother's eyes—'kumno ba ngai sngewbha?'—and choosing to let the game go.
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