Some play for fun, so play to win, some play to show off,
some play to test out, others want to be strong. What do you play for?
That’s not my point. See, we live in such a fickle world,
where loyalty is abased. We are not heroes, yet we expect others to save. One
minute, we are wholeheartedly supporting an athlete, the next minute, when
they don’t perform like we expected, that is even when we should cheer for them
more, but we end up kicking them when they are down. We love with conditions
attached. Once the other cannot give us what we want, that satisfaction of
winning, they are dismissed. We expect too much from people in the lime light,
refusing to look at ourselves. Inwardly, are we always hundred percent,
delivering our duties with precision? Why is it that we can have down moments
but they can’t? An athlete I know and love have been going through a deep in
form, not performing like the four times ballon d’or player of the
year winner (soccer). And people have been raging and chanting ill stuff about
him, forgetting how they loved him in the past, to even put his name in the
Spanish dictionary. Why the outrage? We place people on pedestals and then we
tear them down. I think the real gods are the people not the celebrities
themselves. Because the people decides if they are adored or not, if they stay
up or down. The moment the people dislike them, it goes downhill from there.
Luckily for athlete celebrities, all they need is a revival of talent, and
there position is secure. What do you think? Do we break and make
superstars? Is our love for superstars conditional?
This is pretty insightful. This reminds me of the days when Brad Lidge was pitching great for the Astros back when they went to the World Series, and after Lidge's game dropped off shortly afterwards, the city's attitude towards him seemed to drastically decrease. I suppose we're only in love with their talent, not the players themselves.
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