Natural bodybuilders will always wonder: "What could have been?"
they plague themselves with the constant question and wannabe commitment to being natural. They probably stare at pics of Skip LaCour all day thinking; "yeah, he's natural"
Would you rather have a stock Corvette, a blown Corvette, or a blown Vette with Nitrous? Bad analogy. A stock Corvette is still more badass than a "natural" whatever.
I guess you could just wash and polish your Neon a little more.
Natural bodybuilders shouldn't aspire to be "bodybuilders".. they should just work out and be into fitness and leave it at that.
Magazines like Musclemag, Flex, Ironman and MD have got to make a "natural" bodybuilder feel inadequate in every sense of the word. You end up in a world of your own with a chip on your shoulder every time you see a.... well... "bodybuilder"-- you grab a copy of "Natural Bodybuilding' and you go; "damn, I hope I don't look that bad"
It must suck to be drooling and be pissed all the time.
You will always be smaller, weaker, fatter and less cut.
Deal with it, "Natty"
A lot of that is true, but on the flip side, a guy who juices will have just as bad (if not worse) a bruise to the ego, as he comes to terms with facts such as
1) How he'll never look like Ronnie or Dorian or whoever it is that he idolizes in the pro ranks, even though he's taking shit loads of juice
2) How it is possible to still look like complete shit despite juicing, as a lot of juicers do
3) How there are guys out there with bigger and better builds, even though they don't juice or sometimes even lift (very few, but still, they exist)
4) How there are guys out there who are stronger and out lift him in the gym even though they don't juice and he does
5) How he has to deal with a lot of side effects like acne and shrunken nuts, just to be able to brag about having 19" arms, which 99.9% of people don't care about and which could be built naturally
6) How one day, he'll have to stop juicing and when he does, he'll be worse off than he started health-wise and won't have the blanket of muscle to shield the insecurities he had in the first place.
And so on. Sure, a lot of the above is generalization and isn't always true, but same goes for your post too
And not all of us nattys are always pissed off, even though most of us have a great deal of respect for guys with pro-level development.