What if I told you that these two gentlemen were the same person?
Read this article, go change your pants, and come back.
It’s hard to comment on David Smith’s story without profanity-laced interjections. I mean just look at him. Just look at the picture of the 650-pound man-island next to the smiling, objectively handsome guy, and let it sink in that they are the same person.
One of the sections of the article is titled “Facing his fear” but even without the headings holding your hand you can tell David Smith has a story that is ultra-worthy of Fear.less.
I can’t help but marvel at the progression of it all. The miserable childhood. The graphic suicide fantasy. The frustrated lamentations of a lonely, forsaken man, and his discovery of just a single microscopic shard of hope nestled deep beneath the flab. There are tons of people in the world who want to not wheeze climbing stairs, who want some attention from their gender of choice. This man, in far more dire straits than most people in that category, emerged triumphant. I love how vague his reasoning for deciding to lose weight is. It came from “somewhere deep down”. Okay, sure. Think about how empowering that is. David Smith chose to conquer his fears just because he could, much to the delight of several of his body parts.
Let’s be honest here. Pre-courage David Smith was a physical and emotional wreck. Nobody was going near that. It’s hard to look at him and see any potential. But there he is, plain as day, potential applied. Such is the power of being fearless. He used to be fat and depressed and now he isn’t. Anyone who reads his story can harness that same power. That is a fact. It happened. You have now officially been given clearance to go out and win at life.
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