To my Guido Brethren from a CNY Guido
I happened to come across your website this summer and I was floored. I'm a guido from Central New York who just like everyone else who has wrote this website, has always struggled to fit in. Growing up I had a few friends but never felt like they really knew who I was. While most of my friends worked out none of them ever lifted with the passion and the desire that I do. Obviously I'm bigger than them because of this, and get all the girls they want to get, but I'm still not happy.
On weekends I would go to clubs in Syracuse but never found the atmosphere, the type of people, and the energy to be what I was looking for. I was basically a guido lost, well until I found your website this summer. Thanks to you all I finally have found people who understood that there are NO excuses and you party like a rockstar no matter what.
After I found your website and found people who understand where I am coming from I felt like a guido reborn. I started working out harder than I have ever been before, continued going tanning religiously, and even planned to come down to the shore (my first time ever at the shore) for all of Labor Day Weekend. I was like a new person who had been given a second lease on life.
Things in my life were the best they had ever been until about 3 weeks before Labor Day. I was driving home from the gym having finished a 2 hour chest workout and was sideswiped by a tractor trailer who lost control. As my car crashed into the guardrail on the highway and I suffered two broken legs I felt the excruciating pain of the injury run through my body, but something else in me was gone. It was only when I was in the hospital bed and had heard from the doctors that I wouldn't be able to walk for at least two months that I understood I wouldn't be able to make it down to the shore this year. The doctors thought the tears were from the news of my legs but I didn't have the heart to tell them it was because I was missing out on something far greater than they would ever understand.
Unfortunately for me there was an excuse, and I missed the shore but there will be a happy ending to this story. I'm still working out hard, and the casts should be off in less than a month. I cant wait to get back into the greatest shape of my life, and when memorial day weekend comes around next year, I will be the first one in line at the door. NJGUIDO.com has been a total inspiration to me and I hope my story can inspire others who like me don't quite fit in where they are now.
Thank you NJGUIDO.
-Tony