BuckSpin - A Year Of Change

I’ve been having a really rough time with the time management bodybuilding, when juggled with everyday life, requires and the resultant stresses it imposes (well, I impose) on myself. I keep wanting to get everything done, work harder, do more, etc. But it just doesn’t happen & I keep thinking that I could be doing so much more & be so much further along. Its frustrating to no end.

I look at myself & while I am still in a state of semi-disbelief that I actually LOOK like that, I still know that I could be looking better if I could just work harder, which means more time, which begats the cycle again.

Anyway, I digress from my early present.

Did you ever get something as a gift that was totally unexpected, unasked for & that you LOVE? I got one of those a few days ago.

My part-time gig is at a high end wine merchant. I handle all the beer, cigars & spirits (tough, huh? LOL) and I’m learning more about wine. Anyway, a female customer bought a case of wine the other day & one of my co-workers (a woman) was about to carry it out while I finished ringing up the sale. I told her "Put that down! I’ll get it!"

The customer, a tall, thin woman who was once a professional ballet dancer, said this in reply:

"Yeah, let him get it. Besides, his arms are looking really good!"

Huh? Excuse me? My arms? Really good?  I have noticed that I thought I was starting to slowly fill out a little, but its hard to tell & be objective.

She then said "I’m sorry if that was out of line, but as a dancer I knew what it was like to really work on your body & I tell people when I notice theirs".

My face lit up like Christmas morning. Her simple comment made it all worth while. All the mornings up at 4am. All the 1000s of lunges & bodyweight squats. The cardio. The dieting. The burn. The sweat. The aches. The months of almost constant focus & dedication.

Apparently God knew I needed a little encouragement, and sent an angel in the guise of someone whose body & ability to focus hard was their profession at one time. That angel objectively gave me that boost, that sign, that acknowledgment that its working.

I swear if I wasn’t married she would have received a big kiss from me. I never stopped to think if she was married or not and if it would have even mattered! LOL

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