My Inner Guy
I’ve got a football game to go to Friday.
Then I go to a UFC fight on Saturday.
We might squeeze a Ranger game in on Sunday, and then I go to the Olympia next week!
My, what a difference a few years can make!
I don’t have to look back very far to find a time when I would have worded it more like this…
I have an icky football game, a hot baseball game, and a gross bodybuilding show. And don’t even talk to me about a fight! That is out of the question!
So…what made the difference?
My son is now on the football team.
Magically, someone you love on the field can make you an instant fan of any sport. Go Bulldogs!
And baseball is not quite as hot anymore. It’s amazing how losing a hundred pound coat will cool you off! I enjoy going just to sit there and not sweat! I don’t even have to have a drink to cool me down!
Those UFC Fights aren’t bad either, because my sons enjoy them. I will never forget the excitement in the faces and voices of my sons that first fight. The tickets were expensive. The trip was expensive. But the experience was priceless.
And those bodybuilding shows…
What made me change my mind?
Truly, I remember looking at my first mag and finding it all odd.
But I would look.
Eventually, I bought one just to learn some new exercise.
I found myself going back for more new exercises.
One by one the lifters started catching my eye.
What once was strange became what I couldn’t get enough of!
And all of these changes occurred because I stepped outside my box!
I went to things and tried things with an open mind and came away with new love and appreciation for what I did not previously understand.
When I’m sitting in that auditorium barely a week from now, I don’t think I will be sitting there thinking, “I wish I had stayed in my box.”
Box over there…auditorium full of hot oiled up men in thongs over here.
Really…you should get out and try something new today.
You have no idea where you might end up!
