You won’t believe what I heard when I got home from work…
As you probably know by now, my son is rapidly becoming a very good wrestler; good enough to wrestle in college. And, wrestlers generally have the reputation of being pretty tough…
One of the pitfalls of achieving some success in life is the natural human tendency to get full of yourself, to think that you are special, that you really are “all that”!
Big A is fortunate in this area. To the rest of the world, he might be “unbelievably strong”, “tough as nails” and “has the heart of a lion”, but at home, he’s just part of the family.
“Dad, it not fair! Cakes is stronger than I am! And she’s a girl! And she’s younger than me!”
Evidently, they were having some strength challenges earlier today and she beat him over and over again!
This isn’t the first time that he has said something like this. Shortly after the high school wrestling season was over, he tried to persuade her that she should wrestle in high school. He thinks that she could make it to the State tournament.
And it’s not just him…
When she was 13, she asked is she could sign up for a boxing fitness class. It turned out to be actually a boxing class. We learned that because her instructor had never seen anyone hit so hard and wanted to start training her to be a boxer! I am not kidding!
Here I have been so impressed with how level headed and grounded Big A has remained in the midst of all of this success. Maybe it wasn’t due to good character at all..
Perhaps he’s afraid that his little sister will whip him if he gets puffed up!
