oldsuperman’s BodyBlog

I get about 15 requests for friends adds a day on bb.com. Every week it is more then the the week before. Many are helpless and hopeless. Almost everyday I get a man PM me, some are just down right desperate. Thank God I’ve put my best posts on my blog. I send em there if they haven’t read them as most everything about me is on them. It almost always answers thier questions plus give them much more.

Yet one day, and I can’t even remember doing it, I must have given a certain man a bit more attention. He PM’d me and told me how his life has changed in the last year. He started out by telling me how he PM’d me a year ago desperate for help. I sent him to my blogs as usual and he said they changed his life forever. He said I continued to encourage him, again I can’t really remember doing it, and every time he got discouraged he’d go to my profile and blogs and get inspired again.

Well then he said, "Since you’ve helped me starting a year ago, at 40 years old, I’ve lost over a 100lb, got in shape, landed the job of a lifetime and met the girl of my dreams and getting married! Thank you for giving me my life!"

I was crying like a baby after I read it. All the trophy’s in the world. All the pats on the back! All the looks of admiration! All the acclimation’s from the masses I get daily on my profile…. PALE…… PALE… in comparison to what this man gave to me that day. I walked around for several days with a goofy humbled grin on my face.

This bbing stuff is all fine and good, yet it is the giving back, the friendships forged, that are what is REAL in the sport. It truly is the journey and not the prize at the end that will last forever.

ed aka Ol Supe aka Popps

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