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Self-discovery
Jan. 24th, 2010 02:24 pmSo last night I went to the Chicago DragonGateUSA show with a new friend.
Right now there's only one moment I need to record for posterity.
Right before the main event, I watched BxB Hulk make his entrance. I had never seen him before, and so I wasn't expecting that he would stand in the middle of the ring and do a choreographed dance to some catchy j-pop tune. It was such a mixture of cute and silly and bizarre and whimsical, that it gave me the giggles immediately. Fit my juvenile sense of humor perfectly, you know?
When he was done, I turned to my friend and said, "I like him because he dances!" Meaning that he was the one I was going to be rooting for throughout the match.
I said it, and then I froze. I realized that I'd heard my sister say almost the exact same thing when I've brought her to see wrestling she didn't have prior knowledge of.
It was such a strange realization, mostly because I take a great deal of pride in being drastically different from her. Not that I think I'm any better than she is, but I'm just grateful that I don't have a life anything like the one she lives, you know? So to feel that way, and then to suddenly recognize a tiny way in which we are linked, to identify a mannerism or a behavior or a sensibility that shows how we ultimately come from the same place, well, I guess I find that to be kind of mind-blowing, you know?
That's all I wanted to say.
Right now there's only one moment I need to record for posterity.
Right before the main event, I watched BxB Hulk make his entrance. I had never seen him before, and so I wasn't expecting that he would stand in the middle of the ring and do a choreographed dance to some catchy j-pop tune. It was such a mixture of cute and silly and bizarre and whimsical, that it gave me the giggles immediately. Fit my juvenile sense of humor perfectly, you know?
When he was done, I turned to my friend and said, "I like him because he dances!" Meaning that he was the one I was going to be rooting for throughout the match.
I said it, and then I froze. I realized that I'd heard my sister say almost the exact same thing when I've brought her to see wrestling she didn't have prior knowledge of.
It was such a strange realization, mostly because I take a great deal of pride in being drastically different from her. Not that I think I'm any better than she is, but I'm just grateful that I don't have a life anything like the one she lives, you know? So to feel that way, and then to suddenly recognize a tiny way in which we are linked, to identify a mannerism or a behavior or a sensibility that shows how we ultimately come from the same place, well, I guess I find that to be kind of mind-blowing, you know?
That's all I wanted to say.
