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By Kellyanne
Reverse.
Duck.
Make a little face.
Once again, I’d like to thank the great minds at Microsoft and Grammarly for being able to supply me with the tools to construct a body of words.
Hey guys! Seriously, where are all the families?
How come there is never a high school kid posting on fan pages? Wrestlers have never been more accessible. Email, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, selling shirts, taking photos, seminars — it goes on and on. Maybe it’s because the opposite has happened?
In our effort to appear accessible, to bestow the gift of our great minds on the general population, we have become boring, and the ideals that we stood for flushed down the toilet with every selfie posted.
I am guilty. It is easy. I cannot think of anything new, so I’ll just do what everyone else is doing — time for a burger review.
How many times have you heard someone say, “I want to be an inspiration; I’m here to inspire?” Is that it? Do you just utter this garbage on a public forum to be considered someone of importance with a perfect moral compass?
What is your message, man? A costume and a couple of positive sentences, and then what? We swoon and fall in love with you? You’re too busy clicking “send” and structuring the words that they lose the meaning, and instead of the message resonating with you, you wait until feedback is given until you pursue it!
“I’m all for this!” *gets no likes or comments* *deletes tweet*
“But when it’s time to turn it on, I TURN IT ON.”
You do not even know where the switch is.
“Turn it on.” “I’m here to inspire.” “Take notice.” “Give notice.” “I belong here.” All this nonsense. You forgot what it is like to be hungry.
Have you ever been hungry? Maybe it’s hard to pick up on TV/YT/streaming. When you are in the ring, it becomes very apparent if you’re wrestling someone hungry or entitled. Even when you are getting brutally beaten and chopped to shreds, the entitled ones never hurt your character. They can leave a mark, but they do not make you doubt.
The hungry ones understand that every match is a gift, grasping how important it is to live inside that (x)-minute block. The hungry ones crush you inside and out, and the only thing you can do is rise to their level or be eaten alive.
I wrestled on the weekend. All this stuff is running through my head. Adrenaline pumping, cortisol dumping, and all these questions. Where is the Buddhist guy when you need him?
I can sit around watching Bruce Lee interviews all day, but being like water does not register when it is time to dance.
I don’t know, man.
Peace,
Kellyanne
Kellyanne is a pro wrestler from Australia under contract with Ring of Honor. The Other Side w/Kellyanne appears every other Wednesday.
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