I
wrestle for a lot of reasons. I fell in love with the sport because
it was the most uncomfortable thing I ever tried. And I wants to figure out why
it pushed so many of my buttons. Wrestling was a way to develop myself as a
person. Is highlights all your flaws physically and mentally. I thought after
high school I was gonna be done with this sport and move on but I got a chance
to move to the training center. From that moment on wrestling was an
opportunity to make something of myself, with my life and help my family in the
future. This sport has opened so many doors in life for me and to
myself. It allows me to live the life I want. I travel the world,
work on myself and personal development and get paid for it. Since I don't have
real bills it allows me to take care of my family. I have been able to buy a
house for my mom.... help my family see at least a bit of the world and use my
connections to get them jobs and internships. The better i get the better they
get. Wrestling doesnt come without hardships but the positive gains I get
outweigh any negative. When the going gets tough for me I think of all these
things. That my success is not only about me. And it doesn't matter how I feel.
I inspire my family, friends and people around me. One of my sisters told me
that she never though I would go this far in life so far... and it wasn't ment
to be mean. I started becoming a troubled kid in high school and resented
rules. I'm surprised as well... well maybe not any more....so for her she
thinks if I can do it and get my shit together so can she. I know in our family
we all push each other. My younger siblings compare themselves to me. I would
never give up... so they won't either.... in whatever aspect that would be in
life. Also when you are in a hard situation in a match I think about how I
respect myself and what I do. I've worked to hard to just give up and not try.
To much money had been put into me and other coaches and people investing time
into me. If I just give up its a slap in the face to everyone and myself. Its
one thing to lose but its another thing to give up... I would never live that
down within myself. My story in life and wrestling is something
bigger... bigger than me.
I wrestle for many reasons. A few of them being
that I can't picture life without it and I wouldn't want to. I wrestle for the
thrill and because I'm addicted to the competition aspect of it. There are so
many ups and downs with wrestling, but there's no better feeling than competing
to win. I wrestle not only for myself, but for the hours my parents spent when
I was growing up taking me every weekend to tournaments all over. I wrestle to
make them proud because I know they love to see me succeed as much as I do. I
wrestle because I love to win and therefore I like the process put in to
winning.
Why do I wrestle? I found myself thinking about this
question for a long time after it was asked. It's clearly not a yes or no
answer, but there's more behind the reason than just love. Truthfully,
sometimes I don't always love the sport or the grind. I wrestle because I've
put everything into this sport, to stop, or not give it my all would be an
injustice to myself, my family, and my coaches. I continually push myself day
in and day out because I have an itch for more. Climbing the ladder of success
is fun, but stumbling, that is were I truly learn. I believe I can learn from
every single experience on the mat. So that is why I do it, because I want
more, I want better for myself. Even when I fall, I know that the next step is
getting back. So that, in a short summary is why I wrestle.
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