My FightYour Fight by Ronda Rousey

Author:Ronda Rousey [Rousey, Ronda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crónica, Deportes y juegos, Memorias
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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On Sundays, these two hip-hop producer dudes would pedal up on Tour-de-France-caliber racing bikes and order surf-and-turf and Cadillac margaritas. They tipped me thirty dollars in cash and enough marijuana to get me high for several days. During the week, one of the regular bar patrons sold Vicodin to servers and would slip me one or two for passing the cash and pills between him and the waitstaff, without our boss knowing.

I would gaze out at the ocean while rolling on Vicodin, drinking whiskey at noon, and watching dolphins in the waves. The TV over the bar played an endless loop of SportsCenter. I was riveted by the MMA highlights.

“I could totally do that,” I would say out loud.

Everyone at the bar kind of nodded to humor me. It was obvious that no one believed me. The fact that I was doing absolutely nothing with my life was apparent to everyone.

I had endured so much to get to the Olympics. All along the way, I told myself that the result would be amazing; that it would all be worthwhile. But the truth was that it had been amazing, but it hadn’t been worth it. Realizing that crushed me. I had dreamed of the Olympics since I was a little girl. I won an Olympic medal, and yet I felt like I had been let down.

My disappointment haunted me. I didn’t know how to cope with it. I was trying to drink myself into contentment, but I still wasn’t happy and I didn’t understand why. I spent that whole year lost. I couldn’t figure out what it was, but there was something missing.

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