“Do You Really Wanna Be That Big?”
"do you really wanna be that big?" …That was the question given to me to ponder for a brief moment as i stood there purchasing a venti coffee at the barnes and noble starbucks.
The cashier was a young woman about my age , early 20’s , average body neither attractive nor unattractive, the kind of person you can easily forget about forever. I was completely unaware that this harmless little question would stay with me forever and have such a profound effect on my life.
So.."do you really wanna be that big?" i repeated to myself , i looked down at the cover of the muscular development i was about to read , and with a clear vision of what i really wanted , a true revelation had happened instantly within me…I answered… "YES , yes i do". This tiny little phrase resonated deep inside me reigniting the drive , the completely uninhibited ambition with which i started training yrs ago that has been lost.
The girl not having the slightest clue what is going on in my mind then reciprocates "eww thats too big , you’re perfect now" Im now visibly exstatic , my smile is ear to ear and i couldnt hide my teeth to save my life. Not because she’d paid me this compliment but because she had even further re-affirmed in me my drive to SUCCEED , to do what it takes no matter what , TO NOT FORGET MY DREAMS that we so easily forget as we get older……"NO WAY" i said , firmly "i want to be bigger , BETTER.. i know i can" then i winked at her and said thanks, she thought it was for the compliment she gave me…but she’ll never know the conviction she gave me that seemingly normal day at barnes and noble starbucks , hardly the place for bodybuilding motivation.
January 23, 2007 at 2:00 pm
"Do you really wanna be that big?"
"YES , yes i do."
This simple dialog echoes my own experience. I have also been asked that. I have even been told (by and ex-girlfriend of all people) not to get too big because that is ugly. Well it is a good thing that I didn’t marry her (which I would have never done for many, many other reasons). My goals have always been simple, obtainable and renewable. I want to get big enough that when I meet people that I have not seen in a while they always have the same reaction - "Damn! Your big!".
That is something that I can accomplish, I can accomplish it short term and it is something that I can accomplish again and again…
Heres to getting big…