Disconnecting... Saturday, May 28

I used to think that celebrities used to do stupid things like get involved in hard drugs, drunk driving and other crazy things because they had so much money and felt invisible.  Now I know it's not that at all, well not entirely that.  I think they just crave disconnection.

I too crave disconnection.

For me, disconnection in Korea was my running.  No one could call me, text me or just show up when I was running. The most they could do was wait at my boxing club for me to return.  So I ran.  I ran a lot in Korea, covering anywhere from 50-70kms in the average week.  I don't run as much here in Canada as I did in Korea because it's a bit of a cardio overdose with the rest of my training and I don't need such a disconnection.  I have my church on Sundays, that works to clear my mind and ground me, but beyond that I'm cool with simply coming home and laying in my bed, listening to music. 

These past couple of days I've craved a disconnection from everyone asking me when I'm going to Mexico for my fight and bombarding me with comments about Mexico's altitude and warning me that it's dangerous.  Don't tell me I should go there three weeks early if I just wrote my fight is next week.  Even if it was a way off, I'm an athlete. There's a reason they call us starving athletes.  I need a disconnection from everyone and anyone who wants to stress me out with their negative thinking about Mexico and my fight.  I can't say I'm so stressed about it all actually, I'm more frustrated if anything.  The fight is happening and I'm going to Mexico. I don't need anyone's permission and I definitely don't need their negative vibes.

I've been craving a disconnection and tonight it was offered to me thanks to Foo Man Choo.  He drove in from out of town on his two wheeled beauty and off we raced around Toronto with no real destination in mind beyond somewhere around the lake.  We weaved in and out of traffic like it was nothing and ended up down where they were hosting the Barbados on the Water festival. We checked it out briefly but flopping down on my back lakeside was what I was craving so that's what I did.  I laid there looking up at the sky and noted how good it felt to be looking up at a big blue sky with the CN Tower lingering right behind me.  No more black skies for me; I'm in Canada.