LETTER FROM A DESPERATE STUDENT

Dear Coach:

I am desperate!

I now weigh 295 pounds and my weight in high school was 130 pounds.

Can you see the tears on the page which I now write?

How did this happen to me?

I hear laughs and jokes where I work.

I have a respected executive position with a big company and lately, I feel that my fellow employees are trying to push me out of my hard earned position.

They are ashamed that I represent them.

Last week, we were at a fancy downtown restaurant for a night of drinks and celebration for an outstanding project we completed as a team.

We had no sooner been handed our menus, when one of the new associates, said, "Let's have Kiki order for us, she probably has eaten everything on the menu at least once."

I was crushed.

How dare he insult me with such a crude comment?

Yet, I felt that I deserved it.

I rushed to the restroom, engulfed in tears.

What was worse, Steve, not a single one of my "friends" followed me.

I called in sick for the rest of the week and only recently returned to work.

I am an attorney and I don't know if there is movement on having me terminated after more than a decade with the firm.

I have tried every diet from ones where you buy the food, to ones where you weigh the food to others where you practically starve yourself.

Nothing works.

I was on Facebook recently and a friend from Miami asked me to FRIEND you.

Now, you might remember who I am.

I am Kiki from your Seniors Honors English class.

You were such a marvelous teacher.

You taught me vocabulary in such a way that I soared through college and Law School with a magical flair for words which astounded my friends.

Now, I see you are bringing your talent to a wider audience, by being a mentor to new personal coaches worldwide.

What an amazing following you have!

Please, Mr. Tarde, I am begging you here, can you play your magic one more time in my life and coach me to take my life back.

I am heading down a bleak, lonely road.

You were my prince in shining armor in Miami, so many years ago.

What a story it would be if you could come back into my life for a second act.

I will be your faithful student once more.

I promise.

Please help me.

I have nowhere else to turn.

Kiki


NOTE

COME BACK TOMORROW FOR MY RESPONSE TO KIKI'S REQUEST...............