Why do we dream?
- Anabelle Searer
I was told once that a dream is a wish your heart makes, because your brain is a dick that doesn’t listen to anyone else.
When I was a kid I wanted to be a firefighter. Now I am 20 and I am only 5 foot 6, what can I do?
-Kevin D.
Kevin, if you want to be a firefighter then you need to train really hard. Harder than any of your competition. That means walking around town with a 65 pound pack, every day. You will be up against plenty of people that think that being 6’4″ 250 pounds and squat pressing 400 pounds makes you strong, it doesn’t. What makes you strong in the way that a firefighter needs to be is being able to squat press 6 of those people in quick succession while wearing heat gear and a gas mask.
Get used to a training regime that looks something like this:
- Daily 1-2 hours biking.
- Daily 1 hour WALKING in the hilliest area you can find while wearing a 50 – 60 pound pack.
- 3 days per week weight lifting for endurance, that means high reps.
You are not going to be the strongest man in the room, but you will get the job if you are the only one standing at the end of the day. You also should have a high school, and preferably college, degree. And while you are at it you also might want to consider radical leg surgery so you can be over 5 foot 8.
But, bear in mind, height surgery is incredibly painful and expensive, and you will lose a whole year of your life to recovering. Apparently there are many methods, most involve slowly extending nails. Anyway good luck.
