There comes a time in everyone’s life when everything that they have worked so hard for and all of the things that have been left unfinished just happens to come to fruition at almost exactly the same time. When that happens – which is a very rare occasion – a feeling of relief, completion, justification and excitement fills the air and the person that it happens to realizes that their blood, sweat and tears were all worth it. I can say with no feeling of remorse or regret that this is happening to me right now – and boy does it feel good.

In the last week, a number of things that have been left open or unresolved have been closed and some long term projects that I have worked on for years have reached the pinnacle of success. I can’t tell you the feeling I got when I realized that the things I had worked so hard for despite so many obstacles have reached their fruition and the unresolved, open issues that I have for so long prayed would come to closure have finally been rectified. I got the feeling that a gold digger would get when after months of digging had finally struck gold, or a person who after being stranded on a deserted island for months had finally gotten rescued – or someone who has spent his whole life searching for sunken treasure found the Titanic.

Let’s start with the projects that I have worked on for years. For no salary – and sometimes at my own expense – I have poured my heart and soul into working in professional wrestling. I would miss days at work, weekends with my friends and family and go to the wrestling shows and work them. I will admit that it wasn’t all free. There were times that I would be taken care of, like the time I went to Hilton Head, South Carolina in 1997 for the WWF. I got free airfare, hotel, limo and meals, a personal assistant and a five day weekend in South Carolina, all for commentating a wrestling show – how can you beat that? But for the majority of the time, I would work these shows for nothing – because to me – my payment was the admiration and respect of the wrestling fans that would appreciate what I did and regard me as a member of the wrestling business. Well, seven years after I picked up my first microphone, I am the host of a cable show that has just been purchased by a multi-millionaire and is set to go on national cable television by the end of next month. Over that seven years, there were times when deals fell through, people in the industry tried to prevent me from being successful – and when girlfriends I was dating tried to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. But through those hard times – I persevered, I pressed on – and I made it.

As for the personal issues that have been plaguing my life, I have been without a home of my own for almost one year now. I moved out of my home on Brigham Street in October of 1998 and since then, I have not had a place to call my own. I have been living out of boxes and suitcases for over a year now and would have given anything for a place of my own. It turns out that now I am getting a place – but it’s not a place of my own – it is a home that I will share with the woman that I plan to share not only my home with – but my life as well.

So as I plan to prepare myself for whatever a new home and a national cable show will bring, I take solace in the fact that all of the years of blood, sweat and tears I have shed were worth it – and now – it’s my turn to stop trying and hoping – and start living and enjoying.