Wrestling with Addiction
Birth of Clarity #2
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So in this edition, I thought I'd share a ridiculous, funny and personal story which has a lot to do with an unlikely addiction and finding some clarity.
Let's get started.
One night last year I was doing washing up the dishes and listening to a podcast, something that I still do regularly.
As a big podcast fan, who has been to listening to different shows for many years now, I tend to spend a lot of time listening to them whilst I’m doing household chores, walking to work, doing exercise or when taking public transport.
To be honest, I basically listen to them everywhere, and a lot!
Over the years, I’ve listened to many different shows, changing my rotation between different podcasters and genres but for the longest time I listened to one a lot more than most, and that was Vince Russo’s The Brand.
Anyway, on this particular night, my wife asked me what I was listening to.
I happened to be listening to Russo talking about a recent WWE show.
This made her chuckle as I hadn’t mentioned anything about wrestling in a long time.
This lead to us chatting about how much of a crazy wrestling fan I was many years ago and a conversation we had had many times whilst I was actively involved in this addiction.
Yes, that’s right, I just said it, addiction… I was addicted to wrestling!
Maybe you'd call it an obsession but…
I listened to podcasts on it, I went to live events around the country, I wrote articles on it, I started a podcast on it, I spent hours on social media talking about it and I even started a business around it!
My wife said she was seriously worried that I was losing my mind at the time.
She said it had become a real problem, as most addictions do after a long time untreated, and that she didn’t know if I’d come out the other side.
It was crazy to hear.
Wrestling had become a distraction from real life which at the time wasn’t going the way I wanted. So I immersed myself in this strange little world where there was constant content for fans and wrestlers alike.
Sounds like I’m describing booze or drugs, doesn’t it!
Thankfully when my son was born, my life took on a new and more important meaning and I gained a new perspective on where my life was and where it should’ve been.
I was able to see that I was wasting valuable time with this obsession. I wasn’t spending enough quality time with my wife, I hadn’t been spending any time on my own personal development and I wasn’t fully prepared for beginning life as a Dad.
Thankfully the fog cleared & I gained some much needed clarity.
I realised how much precious time I'd actually wasted and I was so relieved when the obsession/addiction left me.
In conclusion, addiction can disguise itself in many forms; alcohol, drugs, social media, gaming, food.
But who knew it would come in the form of wrestling!
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