Sunday, December 19, 2010

A story of tenacity and perseverance

Today as I was driving home I was listening to a random sermon. In it the pastor told this story:

There was once a scronny boy who wanted to wrestle in a school where there was no wrestling team. He talked to one of the teachers and the teacher decided to make the boys dream of wrestling possible. Surprisingly, the boy won every match he ever had. The boy eventually made it to the championships and came up against the 2 time championship winner. The boy was doing so well and then all of a sudden the two time champion had him pinned. Seeing this the coach didn't want to watch any longer and closed his eyes; just then the coach heard the crowd roar. He opened his eyes to see that the tables had turned. The boy had managed to pin the two time champion and he won the match! After the match was over the coach told the boy "I'm so proud of you, but I didn't see what happened; I covered my eyes. What happened?" The boy went on to tell his coach that when the 2 time champion had him pinned he was folded in half like a pretzel he saw a big toe in front of his face. "Now I didn't know if it was breaking the rules or not," said the boy "but I bit into that toe with all that I had. ...It's amazing what you can do when you bite your own big toe."

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