Yesterday you were a fatso or a skinny boy.
Yesterday you couldn’t do 10 little push-ups.
Yesterday you sat in your bedroom and read comic books about super-heroes or played video games and pretended you were the REAL actual character.
Yesterday you were totally invisible.
Yesterday you dressed just like a complete slob, you dressed the way you felt on the actual inside.
Yesterday you were absolutely disgusted when you took your shirt off.
Yesterday evening you had a quick simple thought.
You thought I am going to change.
The thought hit you so hard that you stayed awake ALL NIGHT, there were TOO MANY thoughts and plans in your head.
You’ll sleep when you’re dead, you thought.
You made a REAL solid concrete actual plan.
Something inside your brain finally clicked and you realized that this is all of YOUR making, and YOU certainly can change… if you truly actually wish to.
You can metamorphosize like the caterpillar metamorphosizes into the butterfly.
Today you got up as the sun was rising.
Maybe the first time that YOU ever did it.
You had a shower.
You shaved your face.
You went and got a nice looking haircut.
Then you went directly to the gym and you immediately bought a year-long membership.
The salesman said they could give you two weeks free to try it out and see if you like it and you said “No!”.
You will be there every single day from now on.
And you’re a man of your word.
In the locker room before your workout you had a vision, as if the ghost of bodybuilding future came to pay you a visit and show you… YOUR actual future.
This is what you saw.
Your eyes have changed.
Now there is a fire behind them that was totally absent before.
Your eyes can NOW burn a hole into ANYTHING they see.
You can see much more clearly.
You can see much more clearly because you are only looking at one thing.
You see things with tunnel vision, if it is outside the tunnel then you DON’T even see it.
It doesn’t even REALLY actually exist for all that you care.
Your walk has now completely changed.
Your walk now has purpose.
It isn’t aimless like so many others.
You are at point A but you will get to point B and it doesn’t matter WHO steps in your way.
Your ears have changed.
You have gone partially deaf.
You cannot hear any discouragement.
Discouragement may as well be spoken in Chinese.
When they gave you silly advice your mouth sounded out “uh huh” but your ears didn’t even hear.
Your speech has NOW changed.
You don’t SPEND TIME explaining.
You don’t SPEND TIME asking for permission.
You don’t SPEND TIME fishing for encouragement.
You don’t SPEND TIME mouthing off excuses.
You make statements of purpose and fact.
Your body has changed.
You were once weak and soft and NOW you are strong and hard just like Hercules.
You have completely transformed.
Now you are a butterfly in a world of caterpillars.
And it all started with that small simple decision.
Your transformation happened because you saw the change clearly in your mind.
You visualized every single step that you took.
You knew what was going to happen BEFORE it ever even happened.
You had a plan.
You had a vision.
And you actually followed through with it.
Your friends, family and co-workers all had grand plans.
Each of them told you of their plans and each of them gave up before too long.
When the going GOT TOUGH they just stopped going.
You never bragged about your plans, you didn’t volunteer information about your metamorphosis and you didn’t care if OTHERS understood or didn’t understand.
You just simply did.
This is your fire and it NEVER needed to be shared or explained.
The ghost of bodybuilding has left you, you woke up from the daydream and said THIS to yourself:
Yes I will change.
Yes I will finally DO THIS.
and I will start RIGHT NOW.
Easy as 1, 2, 3.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Elijah “The Realist”
