Originally posted by sharpshooter736
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Originally posted by fraidycat
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Originally posted by sparked_85
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yeah, kid, i feel for u, my parents were like this also. when i was your age i went thorugh alot of hard times alone. i was into boxing also, but because my mom, dad, and the ***** my dad married after he ****ed off on my mom, all told me i was worthless, a loser, that i'd never be anything, etc, when i was boxing i had to keep it secret from my parents because they wouldn't have let me anyway, but also i never beleived in myself, i thought i was garbage. when one of my coaches, and another guy saw me train and fight, they said i had talent ( what i had was fast hands and good power, kind of like nigel benn ) and told me, but i never believed them until i got older and looking back i realized what i had. i'd always wanted to turn pro.
anyways kid, a few years later i was chasing another one of my ****** dreams and now i'm very successful as a writer - i've been published several times and my career is going extremely well. my dad was a writer and always looked down on what i was tring to do, but i've been able to do things that he couldn't do, in other words i'm very close to being more successful at it than he was. the point of this long boring speech, kid, is that, what your parents say about you doesn't mean ****. jens pulver is my favorite MMA fighter of all time because, his father always told him he was ****, and he became a great champion. in the middle of a beatdown, when he was defending his title ( 2001, on my birthday ) he looked across the octagon and saw the other guy, and said to himself, " i'm gonna ruin his day" and got up to win the last half of the fight. jens pulver is a real hero, not many people in the world could do something like that. kid, find somebody else to give u a ride to the boxing gym, u don't know what will happen in the rest of your life, u might be a great champion one day. if someone told my parents about the success i've had in my career, they would have just laughed and said it was bull****. you can go out and do anything u want in life, it doesn't matter what anyone says about u
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