I’ve had something stuck in my mind for about a week now and it’s been driving me nuts! Today I reached out to several friends of mine I keep in my inner circle. I keep my circle small but it’s tight, honest and may be safe to say they know me better than I may know myself.
We have all put 100% into something at one point in our life. No, not the 100% most think of, I’m talking years of making one thing the most important priority above all others with nothing close to second. Above family, friends, fun, relationships, work, job development and security, all while, not just putting health at risk, actually creating damaging health issues we will all live with the rest of our lives.
Some might say “all in” I’d better state it's learning to live, strive and thrive by being constantly stuck in over your head.
The part of this I couldn’t stop thinking about is why I fear doing that with anything else in my life. Did that time wreck my ability to risk?
Am I now scared?
That one right there hits me in the soul hard. Am I scared? When this gets in my head things really begin to spin and will turn south real quick as I’ve done the dumbest shit in my life being stuck in that turnstile. If I actually begin to believe it - it gets really bad.
When I asked my friends if they would now commit as hard to anything else in their life as they did their sport so many years ago their answers popped out in less than a second. “No way!”
While having no regrets, they wouldn’t change a thing. If they could go back they would all do it again.
But NOT now!
In short, you don’t know what’s too far until you go there... and more.
That time for us was a defining moment of not just who we were but who we’d BECOME.
Scars, pains, destroyed roads, relationships, and years off our lives were not worth the plastic trophies but very small prices to pay for the happiness we all share in taking the hardest road we could. It lead to where we are now and what we’ve yet to do.
TAKE AWAY
Build your own inner circle. It takes time, and years to be exact, but the clarity they bring to chaos can be life changing. You can always trust in faith but close friends go along way.
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