Trust

When you take the first step of  a journey, you never really know where it will end.

Where.

Or if.

Check the map.

Plan your route.

Nothing ever happens the way you expect.

Nothing.

Do I say that like it's a bad thing?

Of course not.

Fate, Destiny, call it what you want.

It's for people who abdicate control.

It's for people who give up freedom.

It's for people who sacrifice their right to choose at the altar of an easy life.

Today's Training:

a1) Tactical Pull-Ups x 24kg KB x 2

a2) Tactical Pull-Ups x 3

a3) Halos x 24kg KB X 10

Repeat x5 Rest 60s between sets

b1) Tactical Pull-Ups x 5

b2) Swings x 20

Repeat x5. Rest 60s between sets

c) VWC

x 10 Minutes

d1) Tactical Pull-Ups x 5

d2) Decline Push-Ups x 10

Repeat x5. Rest 60s between sets

My life has changed direction.

Things I thought were true proved to be false.

Maybe they had always been so, maybe I only just realised.

Either way, the path I started out on, the destination I had intended, have shifted dramatically.

We can't choose our destination, only aim at it.

And we can't choose our travel companions either.

But as my direction has changed, an unexpected number of people have changed with me.

As a trainer, I know people put their trust in me.

As my direction has changed, the people who trusted me have changed with me.

But today, two people who have no reason to trust me, who barely know me, also changed direction with me.

To quote Mathew Broderick's character Ferris Bueller, from the excellent movie 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it."
It's all too easy to forget to stop and look around.

But sometimes you get a reminder.

Like I did today, when these two people - let's call them strangers, because that's virtually what they are - changed direction with me.

And what did I say when I stopped to look around?

I see all the people who trust me.

As a trainer.

As a friend.

As a man.

And I see me.

Is the me I see always worthy of that trust?

Not always.

But today, I am.

Because today, I stopped and looked around.

And I realised that these people who trust my honesty, my knowledge, my skills...

These people deserve to be able to trust me, and to believe in me.

And so do I.

And as of today, I believe.

Believe with me.

Or not.

Your choice.

That's the nature of trust.

General Out