Is it worth it?

This is another nugget from the famed but moth-ballsy NASGAweb forums...

There’s a thread circa 2011 called “Question for the Pros,” which is already funny, because anytime you ask “the pros” anything, what you’re really doing is opening a philosophical bar fight with people who can deadlift your car.

It starts innocent. One guy just wants a clean answer. Just a little guidance. A breadcrumb. A whisper from the mountaintop.

Instead, what he gets is about 15 grown men politely saying, “Well… yes but no,”.

You’ve got one dude laying it out like gospel, "this is THE way.

Then another guy slides in like, “Man I don’t know, I just kinda… send it.”

And then this big ol’ corn-fed missile of a human goes, “Yeah I’ve been not doing all that for years.”

Now we’re cookin’.

It slowly turns into this beautiful mess where nobody is arguing… but nobody is agreeing either. It’s like everyone’s holding a different piece of the same map, and instead of putting it together, they’re just squinting at each other like, “Yours looks weird.”

At one point you realize you’re not even reading about whether its a good idea or not anymore. You’re reading about identity. About belief systems. About who a man becomes when you hand him a weight and say, “Send it.”

And the whole time, everyone’s being super respectful, which somehow makes it even funnier. It’s like a gentleman’s disagreement where everyone could also throw you 40 feet if it escalated.

By the end, you don’t get an answer. You get options. You get doubt. You get inspired and confused at the same time.

It’s honestly one of those threads you start skimming and then suddenly you’re 20 minutes deep, nodding like you’ve unlocked something… even though you absolutely haven’t.

Go read it.

Worst case, you learn something.

Best case, you spiral into an existential crisis and have to go throw just to feel stable again.

http://nasgaweb.com/forum/question-for-the-pros_topic14251.html

written by : Danny Autrey