The Struggle is Real.

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Everyone has a story. Mine is how I went from 120 lbs to 220+ lbs. in the past five years. I am not just overweight but considered obese. Being obese means that every day is another fight to live like everyone else. I became a person who was and still is, far out of their own league to try and fix my broken self, yet I still want to. I want to be healthy not just for the look of it but for my family now and the one I aspire to have. Even though the odds are stacked against me I still want to fight for the better. In my media persona I show several of my pictures in relation to my health journey because I want the people who feel like the underdogs to see my page and know that I can sympathize with their struggle. That is a great deal of what the organizations I support and hope to discuss are facing, the struggle. Makes me want to change my username to “the_struggle_is_real.”.

Truth is, my family has been homeless and in a way we still are. We have begged, scraped, and hustled and fought for everything we have, so we worked any and every job we could. My family wasn’t born rich and were essentially abandoned and abused by a great deal of our relatives. Even the church congregation I had grown up in since I was one-years-old abandoned us… I say none of this for pity but to essentially state I know the underdog because that is my life’s story. Thus, it only feels befitting that in a course where “To the victor go the spoils.”, I advocate for the runner-ups in the sports world. My persona essentially balances the world of “fall guy” sports while being amongst the fallen.