Despite being back to my form of reality, what's "normal" for me but so far from normal for many, I am still forced to wait with regards to the decision about the potential boxing club building. It's beyond frustrating but there's nothing I can do. It's a struggle to have to wait and to remain positive because honestly, the one thing that is putting our entire dream on hold is this one decision -- building yes or building no. The building management continually says no to us yet they continually agree to meet with us and then hold meetings about us. I'm hoping that our persistence will pay off but in the mean time we've been pursuing other means of getting through them, some "back doors" I guess you could say. I'm ready and waiting to pull out my "Cheonan Trump card" and we're currently working the "Drama Family card", with bribe money waiting to be possibly paid out if it gets to that.
January 20th was our anticipated date for our crew of hired staff to take the place over -- renovators, painters, electrician, cleaners. But January 20th has come and gone. It's now January 26th, six days overdue.
We refuse to give up on this place -- it's OUR place. Not only have we yet to find another building with a location as amazing as this but we've also yet to find a building that has the setup like this or one that we can afford. However, even if we had means to more money, no other place can even remotely compare to this place. So to have just a simple five member management crew standing in our way is frustrating and heartbreaking. Two of the five members want us in their building, we're pretty sure we can get the top boss to be on our side, thanks to our crazy connections, but that still leaves two members. One of these two is on the fence so it's basically just the one.
Just one person.
Whoever said one person can't change the world never was in our shoes. This one person has put our world on hold as far as our dreams are concerned. I know whatever doesn't break you makes you stronger and if this be the case, well, I'm going to be freakin' platinum after this!!!
Our future boxing club is all Snickers and I seem to think and talk about. I went for a jog tonight and ended up at our potential building. The first floor security guard is all too familiar with us by now and I'm sure he's sick of seeing us visit the place. If it were possible to stalk a building than we'd certainly be consider this building's stalkers, seriously. I can't even go on that part of downtown with out stopping to stare up at it. It's just sitting there, all alone and empty like it has been for the past several years.
This boxing club is the key to our dreams. It's the doorway to the life that Snickers and I always envisioned for ourselves. I'll never forget Junior Mint's last words to us, "Don't open a boxing club here in Cheonan". It's funny because Snickers and I both took it totally different ways. Snickers took it as an insult whereas I took it as possibly one of the biggest compliments Junior Mint has ever given me. I took it as a compliment in that Junior Mint knows we'll be successful. If he didn't, he wouldn't care where we set up shop. But he does care, that's the point, he cares because he knows we'll be tough competition -- because he believes in our potential.
As we continue to have to go to meeting after meeting regarding this building, it's really hard to fight the discouragement that accompanies having to wait and watch time pass. I keep on having to tell myself, "I'd rather wait than settle".
I've always had big dreams and being average was never in them.
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