Hello everyone. Most of you may or may not know me. If you do, it's from mainly the streams and from various other places. (Hey r/wrestlingisreddit how you doin'?)

Anyways, I took time off of Wreddit, to welcome my four month old into the world, and focus on being a dad. While doing so, I couldn't help but to try and grasp my head around what wrestling, more specifically WWE, really means to me, and not by the rose tinted glasses that r/SC provided. Here's kind of what I discovered.

Wrestling isn't wrestling anymore. Yeah, I know, the whole youtube video and all that jazz, but I really sat down and thought it. The stories that we all can quote almost verbatim, the emotion that we feel, the excitement we feel whenever we hear a certain superstar's music, is gone. What's replaced is lackluster builds, fans who go online and shit on anything that's worth shitting on, and almost forgetting emotion altogether. I'm not saying criticism is bad, in many ways it's good. But the criticism I was growing acustomed to while casually browsing r/SC, started to affect my brain. Like it almost prevented me from even being a fan anymore, getting to the point where I can't even watch the product anymore.

I still do a regular podcast, talking about wrestling, specifically WWE. I won't link, because I'm not trying to get more listeners here, but if you're genuinely curious, message me. For a few episodes, we, as a trio, were angry. Not even the genuine kind of angry, but the irrational kind. Almost like a r/SC post (this isn't a subreddit bash at all, mods, stay with me here.). But as we got it out...it became almost praise. I say almost because obviously there's still many things wrong with the product (trust me, that's a WHOLE other post.). But we started to realize that if we take the internet negativity out of the equation, is the product really all that bad? My answer: not really. There's still great things going on. Roman with the title is great, in my opinion. Again, this is genuinely my first day back, so I don't know how people take Roman now. I still think that Kevin Owens is still going to be the biggest star since The Rock. Streching, probably, but he has that "it" factor to go places. Kalisto needs to be in more singles matches, because he can have exciting matches when and if he gets to.

Here's the point of all this: I missed you guys. I missed the fun, the memes, everything...well almost everything. I didn't miss the negativity surrounding the place regarding WWE or anything else that wasn't recieved warmly. Granted, some of the stuff that got the negative response was well warrented, but if we sit and think about it, is all of it neccessary?

So I guess the whole point of this post is about optimism and how it's missing from wrestling. For a while, I lost it. But I think I got it back again. I'd like to think I got it back. So I guess I'm back on Wreddit, at least for the time being. Hopefully I can maintain this newly found optimism, while still engaging with all of you.

Happy New Year, and R.I.P. Lemmy,

u/TheAjCalvillo