When I first met Snickers he was busting at the seems with ambition, had a head full of wild dreams, and had goals that seemed so big that I wondered if he'd ever be able live life to the fullest or ever would conquer all he had set out to do. But he was so focused on his boxing and that was going to be his golden ticket to a new, better life -- a life where the impossible would become possible.
He cashed in his ticket when we made Hulk's but his ambition to do more and be more never stopped. He went from being a boxer to testing out and proving himself in the cage with a Road FC fight. He went from making the country's largest pro boxing club to wanting to make it even bigger and to incorporate longer hours, more facilities, more staff, and more styles of fight training offered. Snickers has always been that guy who when I say "I like that house", instead of him agreeing with me or just listening, he then responds with "I'm going to make you a bigger and better house!" But then something happened and all this changed.
He went from being the one person I knew whw could make the impossible the possible to being a person who couldn't even be bothered to make rice for his next meal.
Somewhere his passion, the light inside him, died down and lately I've felt as it has burnt out.
But how do you reignite the passion and drive in someone who for all these years had been the source of your own inspiritation, the person whose energy was contagious and who you had come to lean on as being a dependent source of such inspiration?! This has been my personal dilemma these days and I've talked about it over and over, not only with him but also with a close friend I confided in when I felt I was about to give up. I don't like UFC/Road FC, I think it's rather barbaric and think you need to be trained and skilled in many of the fighting arts as supposed to just one, but I told him that if he wanted to continue with it and it made him happy then I'd support him. I'd put my own opinions aside and support him with whatever.
Well, after work tonight Snickers and I headed out for a little drive date, just the two us of, headed to wherever our tank of gas and four wheels would take us. It was while on our drive that he started talking about some newly developed goals he had made, some aspirations. A spark had flickered and it made a fire within him once again. I don't know how it happened or when it happened but it happened and tonight he shared it all.
Today Snickers signed for a fight, a 6 round boxing fight. And while he used to fight as a light weight (63kgs) he has agreed to a heavy weight fight (85kgs). He doesn't weigh that much, only about 78kgs and he'll probably get smaller as his training intensives, but there were no opponents around his weight class. Snickers' new found goal is to break a Korean record and become a champion in three different weight classes and a current sponsor and the attention of a potential sponsor is definitely all excited about this and is already talking about the potential of it all, what it'll mean for Snickers, for Hulk's, for us. I was shocked to hear he's getting back into boxing but even more shocked when he talked about what could happen next once he gets three champion belts under his name, the deal he's interested in making with a sponsor.
Looks like boxing has been, is and will continue to be his ticket to a better life, sweet.
Feels good to have the Snickers I first met back!!!
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