Lance Storm Commentary

[Guest notJames]

May 6,2003

 

I had a very unique experience, this past weekend, before a house show in Kitchener, Ontario. This unique experience was, the feeling of success. It’s weird I’ve never really experienced that feeling before. The feeling of, “yes I’m successful; I have succeeded and amounted to something.” Now this may sound odd because obviously I’ve been successful several times in my life and have certainly achieved a great level of success in my career but the thing is, I’ve never noticed it before.

 

You see the problem (not that it’s actually a problem but I don’t know what else to call it) is that I’ve always been successful and I’ve never really failed at anything before, so I’ve just never noticed. I’ve always been one to set my mind to something and just move forward. So if success has been the norm, what was different this past weekend to make me notice it? To go any further you’ll need a little bit of background information. I went to University in Waterloo, Ontario. Kitchener and Waterloo are, for all intents and purposes, the same city. Most people call it K/W or Kitchener/Waterloo as if it is just one city. K/W is a very important city in my life, as it is the city where I made the biggest decision of my life.

 

Growing up I was, pretty much your model kid. I was a good athlete, a great student, well behaved, and I never got into trouble. I went through high school with great grades, got accepted to all three Universities to which I applied. I was on my way to becoming a Charter Accountant (a very respectable profession). My parents were very happy. Somewhere during my second year of University in K/W I split from the norm, packed it all in, and decided to get into wrestling. (My parents were now, not so happy)I left K/W packed up a duffle bag and headed to Calgary…Alberta, Canada. I had nothing. I had no ins or contacts in the business, a duffle bag full of clothes, and several thousand dollars worth of student loan dept to pay back. I was hanging on the bottom rung of the ladder for the first time in my life.

 

Well this past weekend (14 years later) I had the chance to drive down King Street E. in K/W and drive by my old University. I am now married, to a woman I couldn’t love more, I’ve got 2 fantastic kids, I own a nice home (which is almost paid for), two cars (which are paid for) and I’m well on my way to retiring by the time I’m 40. It was a great feeling to drive down King, some 14 years after making the biggest decision of my life knowing I’d made the right one. That feeling can only be described as “The Feeling of Success.” It was pretty cool.

 

Till next week,

Lance

 

Credit: StormWrestling.com (obviously)

[Garth 0]

Some cool insight there from Lance, i always enjoy his commentrys, there very witty and humerous, he's one of the few that actually produce them often as well which i like.

[Guest goodhelmet]

i have a feeling that lance's commentary won't be so rosy once he is freed from wwe chains. i guarantee you he'll have the chance to get the chip off his shoulder. right now, his columns are the feel-good stuff that we all wish for but in reality don't represent what the wrestling biz really is.