Sometimes you meet someone who touches your heart. I am lucky to have several friends that I can say this about. Ironically, many of them are women I have met through derby! I feel very blessed to have such strong, wonderful women in my life. Women who believe in me. Women who push me to be my best. Women who count on me to push them to be their best.
I have looked at derby from both sides now. The side where you look out from the track as you skate your ass off. Pushing through practice drills, or bouting a tough team, as well as the side where you stand in the middle of the track or along the side lines and cheer for your sisters, wishing you could be at their side. Being on the outside of the track is difficult place to be. Emotion eats at your insides. You know in your heart you are a part of the team, however the gut punching truth is that you are in fact "looking in from the outside." It sucks. It hurts. Since the beginning I have have the mindset that I am committed to my team. Good or bad. Easy or difficult. Win or lose. Skater or not. I am committed. It is a feeling that is difficult to describe to someone who has never been a part of this type of sisterhood. How you can love an activity that much. But any derby girl knows that feeling.
I was reminded tonight, from a woman who has been very special to me since day one of my derby conquest.
Long story short, during practice tonight, we were running an endurance drill. It was a tough drill. Lots of sprinting and lots and lots of laps. She told me afterward that I was her inspiration to continue. That she couldn't quit or complain because she looked at me and knew that I would trade places any day to be able to be working my ass off completing that drill. Thanks Bang! I needed that. You are my inspiration too! I cannot wait to get back into my skates...and kick some ass...on the track. I'm sick of looking in from the outside.
1 comment:
aw =') I love you.
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