Today I was in the gym for my usual back day.
Saw a couple of much bigger dudes on the bench that are all friends of mine (really friendly/nice lads, Idk you can be that friendly and nice, it honestly shocks me)
So obviously I get distracted by the bench and have to attempt a pr (broke my previous pr 90kg for 2, but couldn't hit 95kg)
But upon joking around with these dudes, I noticed that on the bench next time ours (we litreally only have 2 bench press benches in this gym)
Came a group of my old childhood friends, and we met when we were younger through our parents (but since our parents had some breakage here and then the group was torn apart, or.. atleast my mum didn't want to be apart of it anymore)
And so I hadn't really seen these guys that I used to play xbox, and toys with for years, and ESPECIALLY the adolescent teen years where I was 12-14 all the way to this day at 17.
They had no idea.
They had no clue on what transformation or how much I've changed.
The trauma, the social rejection, the social comeback, the physique blow up, the building of my charisma.
And so they were kinda perplexed by this, when I said hi, they (not to assume, not to judge, and to stay humble) Im guessing haven't gone through the same transition as I, let's call it from "boy to man" transformation.
As they all had the usual teen bodies and mannerism of kinda shy, fluffy hair, skinny, not really directing the flow of the convo and kinda letting me lead and talk.
And that kinda just made me realise how far I've come (although I'm far from perfect and I should compare myself to people better than me, not "lower" per say)
No morale of story here, unless you can spot one lol
Good night,
Benji