Post by Adrien | Adam on Oct 29, 2017 21:42:15 GMT -5
I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And my scars remind me that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel
Drunk and I'm feeling down
And I just wanna be alone
I'm pissed cause you came around
Why don't you just go home
Cause you channel all your pain
And I can't help you fix yourself
You're making me insane
All I can say is
“So Coda. The time for waiting for your response is over. I was eagerly awaiting you to respond to what I had said. And I guess, in a way, you confirmed everything I thought about you and said about you.
“Which is to be expected. It’s not like we’re complete strangers with one another. We’ve been in the ring with one another a few times. We’ve shared a conversation or two. Hell, we even have the same manager. Sure, this might be our first one on one match against one another, but we’re definitely not strangers from one another. I’m sure even though I spoke first, you probably had a pretty good idea of everything I was going to say as I had a pretty good idea of what you were going to say.
“I am impressed that you seem to literally be the only person in this company capable of making a reference to my career from prior to #FSociety. I’m guessing that probably has something to do with the shared manager. You keep mentioning LEGION and God & Monsters. You keep telling me that this is different than the times I had to fight off those groups.
“Perhaps the Destroyers aren’t trying to end the company the way LEGION did. I’ve never made any parallels between any of those groups I’ve had to fight in the past to the Destroyers. The only person who has ever tried to compare the Destroyers with Gods and Monsters or with LEGION the entire time I’ve been here has been you, Coda. You’re the only one who has spoken those groups with yours until I just did seconds ago. As a matter of fact, I think there is one good thing about the Destroyers that none of those other groups had. But I’ll come back to that.
“My late father always made it a very important point to me to make sure that I was a man of good character. And he tried to make sure that he put good values in me, from the moment I learned how to walk and talk up until the moment he passed away this past December. One of the things my father taught me was the best way to see how strong someone’s character is. He told me that the best way to see how good a person is was to watch the way they treat people they don’t need. Your entire argument on why Matthew Shields and Kayla Richards are good people hinged on one thing: how they treated you.
“My rebuttal is just that. They need you. The Destroyers take a huge blow if they don’t have Coda. So if they need you, of course, they are going to treat you well. Losing you would lead to a huge downfall for the Destroyers. So I want you to do me a huge favor, Coda. Pay attention to the actions and words of your allies when they interact with someone who they do not need. I know that you don’t see good or bad, just strong and weak. But just because a person isn’t part of your circle doesn’t mean they are weak. So watch how Shields and Richards are to people to...let’s say someone like Honey. Let’s watch the way they treat our mutual friend Eddie Walker. Let’s watch the way they interact with people who work for NGW who’s names aren’t even ones most people in the locker room know. How do they treat security staff, announcers, the cab driver who brings them to the show, the person serving them drinks at the bar after the show, the flight attendant on the flight back home, the man standing behind them at the grocery store with only two items when they have an entire cart of over sixty items, the person who holds the door open for them at the gas station as they fill up their vehicle. I don’t give a damn how they treat their greatest ally or even how they treat me, their top enemy. It’s all about the people in between.
“This is the company you keep, Coda. This is the people you put your heart and soul into defending. This is a choice you make that, if it is the wrong one, could make your life very complicated and cause a lot of problems for you. Because if they are the type of people who treat the staff here like they don’t exist, yells at announcers who say something complimentary of someone they dislike, talks down to the cab driver, skips out on tipping their server, is verbally abusive to the flight attendant just trying trying to do her job when she asks them to turn off their phones on take off, makes the man behind them at the grocery wait an hour when he would have been out in less than a minute, or doesn’t give the person at the gas station a simple thank you...I want you to think about the character of that person. And I want you to think about what happens when the day comes that they no longer need you. How will Matthew Shields and Kayla Richards treat you the moment you have no use to them? What happens if something happens to your contract at NGW and you’re only wrestling at Liberty...which by the way, congrats on your new contract there? Is Matthew Shields still buying you fidget spinners when the only thing you’re doing is wrestling Melissa Reeves for the championship she just won? Will you still be a family when you’re no longer able to contribute to their cause?
“I don’t know what Shields and Richards are like behind closed doors. I can only see how they treat people when I’m around, a camera is pointed at them, or they make their actions known on social media. I can only extrapolate from all of that, and the conclusion from all of the evidence from what I’ve seen...well, it’s not good. Before I even stepped foot in this company, it was those actions that I saw that led me to the decision that they needed to be stopped. You say I’m wrong about them. You say I don’t know the real Shields and Kayla. Perhaps I don’t. I’ll leave that possibility that I’m off based and wrong. You tell me that you do. All I want you to do is one simple thing for me: ask yourself if you really do.
“Now I want you to think about the people I’ve been working with. Honey. Alechs. Jazmyn. How do they treat others that they don’t need, Coda? I’ve got a good example, actually. A perfect example, in fact...how have the four of us treated you? You’re on the other side of this conflict, right? I think that fits the category of someone they don’t necessarily need. That’s not a shot at you in any way, it’s just an observation that you are more antagonist than an ally to all of us. But how have we treated you?
“No one in LEGION had that kind of character. No one in Gods and Monsters had that kind of character, even though I briefly thought Zack Lifer did until the day Lifer determined I was no longer of any use to him and I was cast aside by him. And I’ll be damned if I ever see anyone be put through that kind of treatment, even if they are technically supposed to be my enemy. I NEVER want anyone to feel the way I felt. I don’t even want Shields to feel like that, THAT is how strong I feel against actions like that.
“This isn’t me trying to put lies in your head. I’m not telling you to make any changes to your life. I’m not telling you to leave the Destroyers. I just want you to open your eyes for a moment and watch everything going on inside of your life. What happens when your perspective changes, Coda? When you look at everything from the outside looking in, does anything change? Does everything look the same if you take off those rose-tinted glasses? If they do, feel even more strengthened with your Destroyer companions. I encourage you to stick with them if all of that holds true.
“But know that you are respected by the very four people you’re fighting. You’re respected by the man you will be standing in the ring within just a few hours. While those other two groups didn’t have someone with strong character to treat others they don’t need with some form of humanity, there is one person who does. And that’s what makes the Destroyers different than any of them. THAT is why they aren’t like Gods and Monsters nor LEGION. And that person...is you, Coda.”
I tried to help you once
Against my own advice
I saw you going down
But you never realized
That you're drowning in the water
So I offered you my hand
Compassion's in my nature
Tonight is our last stand
I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And our scars remind us that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel
I can't help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I'm sorry but I gotta move on with my own life
I can't help you fix yourself
But at least I can say I tried
I'm sorry but I gotta move on with my own life
I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And our scars remind us that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel
