When you hear a deep reflective quote on death and living, a wrestler does not come to your mind. You’ll most likely think of a depressed writer and many other professions before you’ll mention a wrestler.
Wrestlers perfect the art of seeming to defy the impossible, holding on to the idea of immortality and not being averagely human.
They exude so much life and presence that can be deceiving. A vibrancy that belies the person they truly are.
You’ll never watch a GOOD wrestling match and think, ‘oh, this guy is afraid of dying.’
Walk into a room of wrestling fans, ask them to pick their all-time greats and The Undertaker will come up, a lot.
Through decades, Mark Calaway as The Undertaker brought the dead to the living. He was Dark. Mysterious. Fearless. Evil.
After 3 decades of wrestling, inventing and reinventing himself, being a legend, a professional, and a friend in the business, The Undertaker decided to go down and rest the dead man.
In an interview with GQ magazine by Ben Allen, The Undertaker talks about his changed perspective on living in a way that clearly stands out for me.
He said; ” I think maybe early on I might have looked at death as, I’m impervious to that, as asinine as that sounds, but as you get older and you lose people that are important to you, it still hurts and I haven’t figured out to… There’s nothing I’ve done professionally that helps that anyway for sure.”
Reading that portion left me with this thought; decades spent being something, playing a part or carving a niche might leave you with answers that are just questions, and what truly separates the exceptional from the ordinary is the awareness of those questions, the reflection, and the knowledge that there is always more to learn.
Learning is transcensional.
When you hear a deep reflective quote on death and living, a wrestler does not come to your mind. You’ll most likely think of a depressed writer and many other professions before you’ll mention a wrestler.
Wrestlers perfect the art of seeming to defy the impossible, holding on to the idea of immortality and not being averagely human.
They exude so much life and presence that can be deceiving. A vibrancy that belies the person they truly are.
You’ll never watch a GOOD wrestling match and think, ‘oh, this guy is afraid of dying.’
Walk into a room of wrestling fans, ask them to pick their all-time greats and The Undertaker will come up, a lot.
Through decades, Mark Calaway as The Undertaker brought the dead to the living. He was Dark. Mysterious. Fearless. Evil.
After 3 decades of wrestling, inventing and reinventing himself, being a legend, a professional, and a friend in the business, The Undertaker decided to go down and rest the dead man.
In an interview with GQ magazine by Ben Allen, The Undertaker talks about his changed perspective on living in a way that clearly stands out for me.
He said; ” I think maybe early on I might have looked at death as, I’m impervious to that, as asinine as that sounds, but as you get older and you lose people that are important to you, it still hurts and I haven’t figured out to… There’s nothing I’ve done professionally that helps that anyway for sure.”
Reading that portion left me with this thought; decades spent being something, playing a part or carving a niche might leave you with answers that are just questions, and what truly separates the exceptional from the ordinary is the awareness of those questions, the reflection, and the knowledge that there is always more to learn.
Learning is transcensional.