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i saw this tag trending when i opened the app. i thought, it has to be some other Brodie Lee, it can't be the one i know, like, it's not at all a common name but it'd be impossible to be him.
this is devastating. 41 years old. devastating. https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1343006487988342786
this is devastating. 41 years old. devastating. https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1343006487988342786
i never met him, i didn't know him personally, never was at a show he was part of, and since i never saw wrestling til late 2016, and i stopped watching wwe ~2 years ago, i. didn't even really see him get to be him.
but it still feels. so. personal. to see this. it. hurts. deep.
but it still feels. so. personal. to see this. it. hurts. deep.
i didn't really know wrestling was capable of like... i don't know how to say this... making me feel something concerning kayfabe besides just amusement or joy. it's weird to say something like, he made me take wrestling seriously, but right now, i don't know how else to word it
but when he came back, as part of the story that was going on with bray/randy back then, he is who made me stop seeing wrestling as purely silly & instead let it be personal. like investing my emotions isn't a waste. it's full story. it's okay to be vulnerable in feeling with it.
he didn't even really speak much. but he didn't need to. his facial expressions and body language really really said so much. my heart utterly broke for him with the story. i would think about even just one face he'd had made, and it lasted in my mind for days. that's powerful.
it was always cool watching him in the ring, i don't want to take anything away from that. but. to just be able to just make an audience - even a new fan - feel so much, and to convey so many thoughts running through a character's mind, just in his eyes alone, that's. so special.
im really. grateful for that. when i started watching wrestling, even when i fell in love with it, it was just. something impressive yet hilariously silly. like just comedy or stuff to riff on. but he made me realize that it's an entire world... if that wording makes sense.
i don't know if it sounds weird or what but it was like, he had the power to give, or at least open my eyes to, an entire new world for me to put my heart into in terms of escapism. that is my very favorite thing about wrestling, how real the kayfabe world can be for us.
my verbal skills are starting to kind of shut down on me because im starting to feel the heartache more than the shock now. but. i wish i could say to him, thank you, Brodie Lee, for opening my eyes and mind to something that's been deeply cathartic for me ever since.
