Assemblage Point
Ryan Clancy writes about perspective
An emerging talent on the indie scene, “Fancy” Ryan Clancy has quickly evolved into one of the most intriguing prospects throughout the northeast. Yet a torn ACL led to complete reconstruction of Clancy’s left knee, which has temporarily removed him from the ring.
That doesn’t mean Clancy isn’t still fully immersed in the world of professional wrestling. Every Friday, he shares his newest story for Undisputed.
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ASSEMBLAGE POINT
Up until this point, if you’ve been keeping up with my weekly updates, I have made it my mission to contribute in a way that will hopefully satisfy each and every reader in a different way by relating some of my professional wrestling experience with a life lesson and how the two correlate. Well today, the thought came to me to go a little deeper and peel back into my own personal journey a little more.
I am reminded of a quote I once heard from famous author, Dr. Wayne Dyer, that once was verbalized by saying, “I was the happiest kid in the orphanage!” This is in relation to his upbringing and his understanding that feeling good is the key. Perspective is everything in life and how you view a situation either as a problem or a lesson is entirely up to both you and I.
Perspective, or an assemblage point as I’ve come to know from the author Carlos Castaneda, is a magical thing. It allows us to view situations as they truly are, neutral. This goes for any situation or experience, no matter the extent. There is always something good to take from it.
When I was in the fourth grade, I had come down with a slew of illnesses consecutively. These were basic in theory but eventually led to me being paralyzed from the waist down with something diagnosed as Conversion Disorder. I was stuck immobile from my neck down for the better part of two years.
Once I was able to miraculously make a recovery is where the real work started. And to be quite honest, my assemblage point was not the correct one. My perspective was that I was a victim to my circumstances and that my life was so difficult and it gave me an excuse to be rude or impatient or unkind to other people because of what I had experienced.
Now, while I’m not diminishing what anyone has gone through, I am saying YOU HAVE A CHOICE. And sometimes it takes years and years or the right people to come along in your life to see you for who you truly are and who you can be!
Years and years later, playing a multitude of sports again, lifting weights, I started to view my time in paralysis very differently. I started to view it from a different angle. My assemblage point had done an entire 180.
I remember the day specifically. I was already wrestling for around three years and I had been going through a breakup at the time.
