It is with bittersweet feelings that I am announcing my retirement as a member from New Jersey Roller Derby and let folks know that is coming Saturday Oct 4th will be my last home appearance with the team as a league member. I know this maybe totally unimportant to many people but I felt the need to make a public acknowledgement of my feelings for these folks and my time with the league what they and it mean to me. I have come to a time where upcoming personal and professional responsibilities (positive) have caused me to assess pulling some of my irons out of the fire. Ive never been one to have the ability to handle many unrelated projects going on at once I just do not have the focus or organizational skills to do them all correctly without allowing other projects to potentially suffer. That being said I felt that this was the right time by no easy method to make this decision. This in NO way is a reflection on the league NONE what so ever I have nothing but a want and hope to see this league continue to thrive and succeed and will always have my emotional connections to it (the blue and yellow is there for life no matter what changes). How could I not? I have made family here that even if I wanted them not to be (which is not the case) they are now engrained in my life in a way I could never get rid of them. I am beyond honored to have been a part of a grassroots upstart organization that I would like to believe I helped play at least in some small part in reaching a list of short term goals. The time that I have spent with my league family has been truly one of the most enriching in my life and has changed me in ways that I can never express fully in words. The best way I could prove this is if you were to speak to anyone that knew me prior to my involvement with NJRD and suggest to them that I would have become so deeply entranced in a athletic/sports organization you would not be able to hear yourself think over the uproarious laughter that would follow and it is all owed to the people that have become a part of my life because of this organization. I have gone from being a casual fan of the sport to an insider with a deep understanding. I have experienced in many cases true camaraderie that in my past 40 years I have never in “scenes” that I was involved in that boasted their psudo “unity” to the point of battle cry and again I have to credit that all to the people that I have stood with for these last few years and have grown to love. NJRD made me feel a part of something like I never have before. NJRD members (and their family members and friends) added to my already personally selected (selective) family, I attained goals with NJRD I never even knew I had. I have traveled, cried, drank, argued , sweat, laughed, yelled at, been yelled at by, acted down right stupid, smelled , convalesced with some of the greatest people I have ever know. NJRD gave me the opportunity to meet people that although not in the league itself will always be special to me most of those people would not be a part of my life if not for NJRD (I so badly want to acknowledge you all but Im so afraid I will forget someone and then I will never forgive myself although I will admit this there is a small part of my lower right leg that has a bit of purple and green blood in it just saying ). With this decision I get to again become the rabid fan that I became in that short time period before I became a league member so I will still be around. This is to ALL the members of the league past and present Thank You, I Love you please continue to move upwards and onwards and strive for whatever personal and group goals you have set or will set know that you as individuals and a whole have at least had a life changing impact on this one person. And if nothing else just do me a favor and be ******* AWESOME!
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:18:15 +0000
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