I just lost an entire blog post ... about something entirely different than this post ... and I got over it.
Quick.
No use bleeding all over the carpet about it, is there?
I called Smilin' Vic, who's out with a Canadian friend visiting Doha, and he commiserated as I described the horror of losing a 2-hour diatribe to the viciousness of a Safari Shutdown.
And he was duly empathetic. Smilin' Vic is the biggest GypsyInTheME supporter ever. I have to love him for that and so much more.
After losing all that, after the first time blogging in a while, I didn't feel much like putting any effort into writing.
I started YouTubing ... and came across "The Wrestler" by Bruce Springsteen.
And realized that sometimes I'm gonna "leave with less than I had before". I remembered that doing what I love isn't always about winning. Sometimes you write well; sometimes you write crap. Sometimes you lose everything you write. Sometimes you're just a 'one-handed' writer.
Once in a while, people will like what I have to write.
And tell me, Friend, "can I ask for anything more?"
It's so much like our life here.
We're in the rink. It's a fight. We've left everything behind. We're a 'one trick pony' and we're here to earn what we can off of it. Every once in a while someone smiles when our "blood, it hits the floor". But we can't ask for anything more.
We work day in and day out like a "one-armed man punching at the breeze" in the hopes that one day the bruises we display will bring us to that place we want to be.
We are "the one legged man" he sings of. Some days we are broken, but we refuse to be defeated. At the end of the day, we are doing what we know. Broken bones and bruises we display. A one-legged duo trying to dance its way free ...
Sad, but true.
Not so sad, actually. We're doing what we know, what we can, to make a life, to make a living, to wrestle our way to freedom ...
"Have you ever seen ... a one-legged dog makin' its way down the street?" That's us, slightly broken, but making our way home ...
We've pushed away the comfort ... we proudly display the broken bones and bruises, and one day they'll bring us home.
One lost post won't break me .... nor will life in the ME ...
Our blood will hit the floor, we'll be bruised, we might not be graceful ... but we'll make it. It's the wrestler in us, wrestlers in the ME...