“I may not be as good as I once was, but I was good once, as I ever was” (Toby Keith). It doesn’t matter what I was capable of once upon a time. It only matters what I’m capable of now. I try my best with the tools I currently have and can only use my memory to give me an idea of what I thought was possible once in my life.
I don’t have the luxury of training with a body that’s 20 years younger, when I was presumably in the best shape of my life. Just as my 20 year old self didn’t have the next 20 years of experience and mental development that I carry with me today. There is no comparison between me of 1991 and me of 2011. I have no physical memory of what I was like or how I felt on a daily basis. I have glimpses of things I did back then, but for all intensive purposes, those memories are of a different person. I might as well read about someone else and pretend it was me.
Very little changes from day to day, but over a period of time, everything does in a big way. I may no be good as I once was, but it doesn’t matter. I only need to be the best I can be now, so I can be as good as I once was, yesterday.
