abingtonrunner wrote:
UPDATED/REVISED: Some thoughts, observations and suggestions about Mike Rossi's post below:
http://imgur.com/a/TkG6M#Pnve5bUI have officially hit rock bottom. - Actually your descent started 2.5 years ago and in all honesty, you have not yet hit rock bottom, it just may feel that way because of your hubris and thinking you are above the lectures you gave on Facebook and elsewhere, like another infamous liberal lecturer, former President Obama. He liked to lecture the public but often didn't follow his own words. You were akin to his do as I say, not as I do because you felt and believed that you could anything with no recourse, which for you meant, resorting to violence, lying and cheating.
It's been a hellish past 2 1/2 years and despite my positive public persona it's taken a toll on my family and I. - You once espoused about the lessons that your children learned on the trip to Boston. One of the takeaways here is that there are no shortcuts to any place worth going or any goal worth achieving. Someone commented on the article on Abington Patch's FB page which was quite good, it said, "Maybe his kids can be excused from school for an educational trip to the courthouse". You cheated and then lied over the course of those 2.5 years, leaving a wake of destruction for you, your family and countless others. Your positive public persona as you called it was another lie bestowed upon others at their expense along with your personal attacks, threats and stalking. The toll is solely a result of your own actions, words and choices.
Most of it I brought on myself and I take full responsibility - Actually, you brought it solely (not most) on yourself. No one else helped or contributed. It started with your self righteous letter to the principal, who was doing her job according to the Township policies and simply carrying out her professional duties. She was following the rules, rules that you believed you were above, a common theme over the past 2.5 years. In other words, she had and has integrity and ethics, something you clearly lack. That was the catalyst, but what ignited your downfall, was first cheating and then perpetual lying about it, threatening anyone who questioned you and stalking those who dare asked legitimate questions. Worse, you believed your own lies which fed into your boldness and blind hubris. As for taking full responsibility, so far all you have done is said you take responsibility, which given your history of lies, leaves a lot to be desired. Talk is cheap. Actions speaks louder than words. If you really take full responsibility, now is the time to admit that you cheated at VIA Marathon. The public is a very forgiving. Saying that you take full responsibility is easy, demonstrating it though is the hard part. Time will tell, starting on September 18.
To mask the pain I reached for the bottle and it became an addiction. - Yes, lets blame alcohol instead of yourself. Once again, it is someone or something else. That is the easy way out. Let's blame alcohol for your violence, which in all honesty, had you not assaulted someone this past weekend, in other words, gotten caught, you would not be taking "responsibility". Typical I am sorry that I got caught, not sorry for my actions and words!
Now I have to change. Completely - Yes, now you have to because you were caught and given an ultimatum by you know who and you know why. As do we. But it is "you have to change" instead of that you "want to change." There is a difference and it is not semantics.
I am sorry to anyone, friends and enemies alike, for anything I said or did to hurt you. Some of the things I've done and said are troubling to me. -
Saying that is one thing, demonstrating it is another thing. Only "some" things are troubling? Confess that you cheated and lied about it, then let's talk.
I am going to fight to become a better person and the man my family deserves. - Fight, huh? Appropriate word choice. It starts with admitting that you cheated and lied because that will dog you forever until it is put to rest and the same demons that you allege earlier will still be there and you are likely to fall off the proverbial wagon again when challenged or asked about VIA. Confess for not only your sake, but more importantly, you family's.
I'll be getting off social media to work on getting better. - Before you do, post an admission that you cheated and lied. Otherwise no matter what you do, that will be there, and you will face it for the rest of your life and you will struggle with staying better.
Now that it is out that you hit your wife, Rock Bottom, everyone finally sees that your public persona was nothing more than more lies littered with hypocrisy. All the bragging about this and that, and trying to convince everyone how much you cherished your wife/bride was a lie which you capped off by assaulting her and then trying to blame alcohol and everyone else for all your actions and hateful words.
Several times you posted on Facbook that when one erases history, history is likely to repeat itself. However, you have deleted yet another one of your many Twitter accounts and your several Facebook profiles. Hypocrite. I guess history is bound to repeat itself, as it has for 2.5 years. You used to post stuff and delete it. Post more and delete it. You are right, when one erases history, it is likely to repeat itself.
It is time for you to talk less and demonstrate your sincerity..........
Confess that you cheated at VIA. The public can be and is very forgiving. But it is you who needs to take that step first and the rest will follow.