When it comes to pursuing your dreams, brother sometimes you’ve got to go against the flow.
That might mean leaving a career you feel secure in, travelling to a strange land for the first time, or even founding one of the most legendary characters in professional wrestling history! Your friends might call you crazy, you might doubt yourself in the dark days, but when you’ve got a dream of the bigger picture in your head, there’s only one way to get there.
You’ve got to push through the challenges, even if one of those challenges is your own mother trying to convince you one way or another.
Before the Hulkster became The Immortal you know and love, he was the bassist Terry Bollea. His band Ruckus was going strong and well liked in the Florida music scene, but Terry and his new wrestling buddies were growing in a different direction. When the young musician finally decided it was time to pursue his dreams in the circled square, he knew the hard part wouldn’t be the days spent in the gym, the demanding meal plan, or the hard-to-impress sages of professional wrestling.
Terry knew that if he could convince his parents to support his dreams, he could do anything. A few decades later, and the proof is in the pudding, brother.