Post by Joe Everyman on Sept 4, 2009 21:01:37 GMT -6
Echoes - ech⋅o
–noun, plural ech⋅oes, verb, ech⋅oed, ech⋅o⋅ing.
–noun
1. Any repetition or close imitation, as of the ideas or opinions of another.
2. A person who reflects or imitates another.
3. A sympathetic or identical response, as to sentiments expressed.
Silence - si⋅lence
–noun, verb, -lenced, -lenc⋅ing, interjection
1. Absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
2. Absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern
3. The state of being forgotten; oblivion
Patience - pa⋅tience
–noun
1. The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
Grace - grace
–noun, verb, graced, grac⋅ing.
1. A pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.
2. A manifestation of favor, esp. by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school.
3. Mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace.
4. Favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity.
The scene opens up on Joe Everyman's front porch. As the camera zooms in, it sees a very distraught Joe. He has his head down and he seems very sad about something. After the camera gets close, Joe catches eye of it but doesn't react to it at first. Joe is still lost in his thoughts, still looking down at the ground. He opens his mouth for a second, but just shrugs it off before going back to his thoughts. After a few more moments, Joe finally begins to talk.
Joe Everyman: This job is deep within what people would call "a stressful environment". This job that I am in takes alot out of you, wither it be physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. But, it's something I do, because it's something I love. When you love something, you want to stay with it no matter how hard it gets. I have loved this business since I was a very young boy. I always loved watching it on television, I always loved pretending I was a wrestler, and I always loved imagining I could some day be as great at it as people like The Rock or Ric Flair, Stone Cold or Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels or the Undertaker. No matter what, people look up to these people, and I did the same. I always wanted to be like them, and with that, I fell in love with the business. But even thing like that can be hard, and even things that you love can turn on you and turn out very badly. And it seems like it can happen at any turn. Alot of the time it's not visible till it actually happens. And alot of the time, it's not even your fault. Something will just go horribly wrong and just turn out horribly for you or for others.
Joe Everyman: I bring this up because something happened earlier today that has never happened to me before. I'll set up everything for you. I took last week off because I felt a little burnt out, and I realize I needed to spend more time with my family and friends...clearly, I'm not exactly buddy-buddy with anyone at "work". So, I let Leonard Fox know, and I flew home for the week. Little did I know, it was going to end up turning ugly. I came home, and starting helping around the house some. But it seemed like something was wrong with Maria. I would constantly ask her all week, but she never told me what it was. And even this past week she wouldn't tell me anything, so I had to investigate. I would talk to Aurora...but then again, she is just a baby. I tried asking Amber and Scotty, but they didn't know anything. So then, eventually, this happened...
The scene fades out and into a flashback. Joe is sitting in the living room, deep in his thoughts. Suddenly, Maria walks into the camera, visibility upset. She sits down next to Joe, and says the four words every guy is afraid to hear.
Maria Williams: We need to talk.
Maria opened up finally, but exactly when I wasn't expecting it. I finally got to find out what was troubling her...too bad I didn't really want to know after I found out.
Maria Williams: Look Joe, you know I love it when you are home, because I really do miss you when you are on the road. But, I watched Jason's promos from earlier this week...and they honestly scared me a little bit.
Joe Everyman: But why? What exactly scared you about them?
Maria Williams: Well...I kind of feel as if what he said is a little true. I mean, I would never leave you...but it really does hurt when you are gone for so long. I get really lonely...I mean, it feels as though I am rising our child by myself. I sometimes get help from Scotty or Amber, but with Scotty breaking his ankle, Amber has to be there more for him than Aurora or me. I don't know...it just seems like this relationship is hitting a very weird spot...
With that, Joe cuts off Maria by just raising his hand towards her mouth. Joe just drops his head in shame for a second and then lifts it back up. Joe knows exactly what to say, word for word...but doesn't know how to get it out.
Joe Everyman: Look Maria...I do love you. I love Aurora just as much too. But I do love this business. I am doing it not only for enjoyment, but because I am financially setting us up for life. I know I get beat sometimes, and sometimes I act differently because of it, but down the road it is all going to end up well. For the both of us, not just me. I really do love this business...it's just hard sometimes.
Maria Williams: What do you mean 'hard'?
Joe Everyman: I mean hard because...I want to spend time with both. I want to spend time with you and Aurora, but I also need to spend time training and wrestling to get better at it. It is a lose-lose, because whichever side I choose, it comes back and bites me in the ass.
Maria Williams: It's not lose-lose if you pick me and your daughter...is it?
Joe Everyman: No...it's just...I don't know. If I stay here, I will not love my career and we will lose all of our income. I am used to this life of ours, and I don't think I could ever go back.
Maria Williams: I'm sorry Joe...I do love you...but you're going to have to choose...your career or your family.
Without saying a word, Joe just stands up and walks out the front door. Maria just sits for a second, silent, without moving a muscle. A single tear rolls down her cheek before the scene fades back into present time.
Joe Everyman: Do you see? It is that time now where I have to choose. Either I stay in the wrestling business, beat the ****ing **** out of Sexy Jason and then Lance Ryan, and eventually become the World Heavyweight Champion, while destroying my home life and possibly the love of my life. Or, staying home and walking away from the business I love to stay home and stay with my future wife and my daughter. This decision is so hard because both sides are what I love. I love Maria, but I also love my other life. I love what I have become in the wrestling business. I love the fact that I will soon be the World Heavyweight Champion, something I have striven for my entire career. This is just something no person should be set on, but sometimes even the ones we love do this. Sometimes, your wife wants you to be more active, so she forces you into a diet that makes your life more stressful, leading to more weight lose. Or perhaps you just can't understand what to do anymore, but you can't reach out to anyone for help, not even the one you love, because you can't figure out what is wrong in the first place. Or maybe you are so stressed and so worried that nothing seems worth it anymore. This happened to alot of people, and it's finally happening to me. Times like these are tough for everyone, and it's me just as bad.
Joe looks off into the street and then back down at the ground. He is trying to collect his thoughts, but is too drained to be able to come up with anything. He just stares at the ground for a little bit longer before continuing.
Joe Everyman: Why would fate push something onto someone like this? Sometimes, the best person gets hell pushed onto them, while the bad, heartless one gets everything they want. I thought this could be me a few months ago when I 'drastically' changed my attitude, but I never believed something like this would happen. Maria had already told me that no matter what I did in the wrestling business, she would still love me the same. But now I learn it's not the way I act, but the basis of the career period, or the basis of my life. Sometimes, people just can't change that quickly. For me, I just can't give up something I love for something else. I know Maria loves me, and she wants me to give it up...but at the same time, other wrestlers say that I need to stay on the road more to be the top of my game. I try to stay fifty-fifty on it, but that is horribly hard to do. But, I guess it's finally time to choose. The love of my life, or the career I love...
Just then, the front door behind Joe opens up and out walks Maria. She is crying and visibly depressed. She sits down next to Joe and puts her arm around him shoulders and pulls herself very close to him.
Joe Everyman: Maria...
Maria Williams: Hold on...
Maria tries to bring herself back to the real world. She clears up her face and turns towards Joe.
Maria Williams: Look...I'm sorry Joe. I didn't mean to say what I did. The way I put it was that if you picked wrestling, we would break up or something horrific like that. I never meant to put you though something like that. I never mean to do anything like that to you, it's just sometimes things happen that trigger rage or sadness or something that makes me go off on you. I am truly sorry Joe.
Joe keeps looking down at the ground.
Maria Williams: I mean it, I never meant to say any of that stuff. Please forgive me, it is hard on me yes, but this relationship means too damn much to me to let it die out like this. We have been together for almost 3 years now, and yes, sometimes we fought, and sometimes we argued, but through it all, I have always loved you. Sometimes we hated each other, and something we thought about the worst...but even though all of that, we can still come back and say that we love each other, and always apologize for something bad we did. No matter what, I always love you Joe, and I never want to end this. Will you please forgive me?
Joe Everyman: Yes...I forgive you.
Maria quickly hugs Joe and gives him a big kiss.
Maria Williams: I love you Joe.
Joe Everyman: I love you too.
Joe and Maria then stand up and walks into the house.
I guess my decision was made for me. Sometimes it just happens like that. As for this Sunday, Jason, you're dead. I don't have to preach for hours on end about anything you said or did. All I have to say is...your dead. See ya tonight, Jason.
The scene then fades out.
–noun, plural ech⋅oes, verb, ech⋅oed, ech⋅o⋅ing.
–noun
1. Any repetition or close imitation, as of the ideas or opinions of another.
2. A person who reflects or imitates another.
3. A sympathetic or identical response, as to sentiments expressed.
Silence - si⋅lence
–noun, verb, -lenced, -lenc⋅ing, interjection
1. Absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
2. Absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern
3. The state of being forgotten; oblivion
Patience - pa⋅tience
–noun
1. The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. An ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
Grace - grace
–noun, verb, graced, grac⋅ing.
1. A pleasing or attractive quality or endowment.
2. A manifestation of favor, esp. by a superior: It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school.
3. Mercy; clemency; pardon: an act of grace.
4. Favor shown in granting a delay or temporary immunity.
It's never enough to say I'm sorry
It's never enough to say I care
But I'm caught between what you
Wanted from me, and knowing
If I give that to ya
I might just disappear.
Nobody wins when everyone's losing
It's never enough to say I care
But I'm caught between what you
Wanted from me, and knowing
If I give that to ya
I might just disappear.
Nobody wins when everyone's losing
The scene opens up on Joe Everyman's front porch. As the camera zooms in, it sees a very distraught Joe. He has his head down and he seems very sad about something. After the camera gets close, Joe catches eye of it but doesn't react to it at first. Joe is still lost in his thoughts, still looking down at the ground. He opens his mouth for a second, but just shrugs it off before going back to his thoughts. After a few more moments, Joe finally begins to talk.
Joe Everyman: This job is deep within what people would call "a stressful environment". This job that I am in takes alot out of you, wither it be physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. But, it's something I do, because it's something I love. When you love something, you want to stay with it no matter how hard it gets. I have loved this business since I was a very young boy. I always loved watching it on television, I always loved pretending I was a wrestler, and I always loved imagining I could some day be as great at it as people like The Rock or Ric Flair, Stone Cold or Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels or the Undertaker. No matter what, people look up to these people, and I did the same. I always wanted to be like them, and with that, I fell in love with the business. But even thing like that can be hard, and even things that you love can turn on you and turn out very badly. And it seems like it can happen at any turn. Alot of the time it's not visible till it actually happens. And alot of the time, it's not even your fault. Something will just go horribly wrong and just turn out horribly for you or for others.
Oh, it's like
One step forward and two steps back
No matter what I do you're always mad
And I can't change your mind,
Oh, it's like
Trying to turn around on a one way street
I can't give you what you want
And it's killing me and I, I'm starting to see
Maybe we're not meant to be
One step forward and two steps back
No matter what I do you're always mad
And I can't change your mind,
Oh, it's like
Trying to turn around on a one way street
I can't give you what you want
And it's killing me and I, I'm starting to see
Maybe we're not meant to be
Joe Everyman: I bring this up because something happened earlier today that has never happened to me before. I'll set up everything for you. I took last week off because I felt a little burnt out, and I realize I needed to spend more time with my family and friends...clearly, I'm not exactly buddy-buddy with anyone at "work". So, I let Leonard Fox know, and I flew home for the week. Little did I know, it was going to end up turning ugly. I came home, and starting helping around the house some. But it seemed like something was wrong with Maria. I would constantly ask her all week, but she never told me what it was. And even this past week she wouldn't tell me anything, so I had to investigate. I would talk to Aurora...but then again, she is just a baby. I tried asking Amber and Scotty, but they didn't know anything. So then, eventually, this happened...
It's never enough to say I love you
No, it's never enough to say I try
It's hard to believe that's there's
No way out for you and me
And it seems to be,
The story of our life
Nobody wins when everyone's losing
No, it's never enough to say I try
It's hard to believe that's there's
No way out for you and me
And it seems to be,
The story of our life
Nobody wins when everyone's losing
The scene fades out and into a flashback. Joe is sitting in the living room, deep in his thoughts. Suddenly, Maria walks into the camera, visibility upset. She sits down next to Joe, and says the four words every guy is afraid to hear.
Maria Williams: We need to talk.
Maria opened up finally, but exactly when I wasn't expecting it. I finally got to find out what was troubling her...too bad I didn't really want to know after I found out.
Maria Williams: Look Joe, you know I love it when you are home, because I really do miss you when you are on the road. But, I watched Jason's promos from earlier this week...and they honestly scared me a little bit.
Joe Everyman: But why? What exactly scared you about them?
Maria Williams: Well...I kind of feel as if what he said is a little true. I mean, I would never leave you...but it really does hurt when you are gone for so long. I get really lonely...I mean, it feels as though I am rising our child by myself. I sometimes get help from Scotty or Amber, but with Scotty breaking his ankle, Amber has to be there more for him than Aurora or me. I don't know...it just seems like this relationship is hitting a very weird spot...
With that, Joe cuts off Maria by just raising his hand towards her mouth. Joe just drops his head in shame for a second and then lifts it back up. Joe knows exactly what to say, word for word...but doesn't know how to get it out.
Joe Everyman: Look Maria...I do love you. I love Aurora just as much too. But I do love this business. I am doing it not only for enjoyment, but because I am financially setting us up for life. I know I get beat sometimes, and sometimes I act differently because of it, but down the road it is all going to end up well. For the both of us, not just me. I really do love this business...it's just hard sometimes.
Maria Williams: What do you mean 'hard'?
Joe Everyman: I mean hard because...I want to spend time with both. I want to spend time with you and Aurora, but I also need to spend time training and wrestling to get better at it. It is a lose-lose, because whichever side I choose, it comes back and bites me in the ass.
Maria Williams: It's not lose-lose if you pick me and your daughter...is it?
Joe Everyman: No...it's just...I don't know. If I stay here, I will not love my career and we will lose all of our income. I am used to this life of ours, and I don't think I could ever go back.
Maria Williams: I'm sorry Joe...I do love you...but you're going to have to choose...your career or your family.
Without saying a word, Joe just stands up and walks out the front door. Maria just sits for a second, silent, without moving a muscle. A single tear rolls down her cheek before the scene fades back into present time.
There's still time to turn this around
Should we be building this up
Instead of tearing it down
But I keep thinking
Maybe it's too late.
Should we be building this up
Instead of tearing it down
But I keep thinking
Maybe it's too late.
Joe Everyman: Do you see? It is that time now where I have to choose. Either I stay in the wrestling business, beat the ****ing **** out of Sexy Jason and then Lance Ryan, and eventually become the World Heavyweight Champion, while destroying my home life and possibly the love of my life. Or, staying home and walking away from the business I love to stay home and stay with my future wife and my daughter. This decision is so hard because both sides are what I love. I love Maria, but I also love my other life. I love what I have become in the wrestling business. I love the fact that I will soon be the World Heavyweight Champion, something I have striven for my entire career. This is just something no person should be set on, but sometimes even the ones we love do this. Sometimes, your wife wants you to be more active, so she forces you into a diet that makes your life more stressful, leading to more weight lose. Or perhaps you just can't understand what to do anymore, but you can't reach out to anyone for help, not even the one you love, because you can't figure out what is wrong in the first place. Or maybe you are so stressed and so worried that nothing seems worth it anymore. This happened to alot of people, and it's finally happening to me. Times like these are tough for everyone, and it's me just as bad.
Joe looks off into the street and then back down at the ground. He is trying to collect his thoughts, but is too drained to be able to come up with anything. He just stares at the ground for a little bit longer before continuing.
Joe Everyman: Why would fate push something onto someone like this? Sometimes, the best person gets hell pushed onto them, while the bad, heartless one gets everything they want. I thought this could be me a few months ago when I 'drastically' changed my attitude, but I never believed something like this would happen. Maria had already told me that no matter what I did in the wrestling business, she would still love me the same. But now I learn it's not the way I act, but the basis of the career period, or the basis of my life. Sometimes, people just can't change that quickly. For me, I just can't give up something I love for something else. I know Maria loves me, and she wants me to give it up...but at the same time, other wrestlers say that I need to stay on the road more to be the top of my game. I try to stay fifty-fifty on it, but that is horribly hard to do. But, I guess it's finally time to choose. The love of my life, or the career I love...
Just then, the front door behind Joe opens up and out walks Maria. She is crying and visibly depressed. She sits down next to Joe and puts her arm around him shoulders and pulls herself very close to him.
Joe Everyman: Maria...
Maria Williams: Hold on...
Maria tries to bring herself back to the real world. She clears up her face and turns towards Joe.
Maria Williams: Look...I'm sorry Joe. I didn't mean to say what I did. The way I put it was that if you picked wrestling, we would break up or something horrific like that. I never meant to put you though something like that. I never mean to do anything like that to you, it's just sometimes things happen that trigger rage or sadness or something that makes me go off on you. I am truly sorry Joe.
Joe keeps looking down at the ground.
Maria Williams: I mean it, I never meant to say any of that stuff. Please forgive me, it is hard on me yes, but this relationship means too damn much to me to let it die out like this. We have been together for almost 3 years now, and yes, sometimes we fought, and sometimes we argued, but through it all, I have always loved you. Sometimes we hated each other, and something we thought about the worst...but even though all of that, we can still come back and say that we love each other, and always apologize for something bad we did. No matter what, I always love you Joe, and I never want to end this. Will you please forgive me?
Joe Everyman: Yes...I forgive you.
Maria quickly hugs Joe and gives him a big kiss.
Maria Williams: I love you Joe.
Joe Everyman: I love you too.
Joe and Maria then stand up and walks into the house.
I guess my decision was made for me. Sometimes it just happens like that. As for this Sunday, Jason, you're dead. I don't have to preach for hours on end about anything you said or did. All I have to say is...your dead. See ya tonight, Jason.
The scene then fades out.