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re: Why are so many pro athletes mentally fragile?
Posted on 4/12/23 at 3:10 pm to L5ut1g3r
Posted on 4/12/23 at 3:10 pm to L5ut1g3r
The pathology is crazy as well as some of the external factors of child actors and some pro athletes face. These guys don't have the same lives the rest of us do. It would be one thing if some of these athletes were responsible only for themselves and maybe a family member.
They end up being the cash cow for so many. Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters. Maybe a wife and kid not to mention the managers and agents who constantly lije to remind them of their " contractual obligations" while most of us are 22-23 are experiencing what amounts to real freedom finally. So many of these top athletes have been under someone's thumb, probably since high school.
Not excusing many of their negative behaviors but I cut them some slack on their attitudes
They end up being the cash cow for so many. Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters. Maybe a wife and kid not to mention the managers and agents who constantly lije to remind them of their " contractual obligations" while most of us are 22-23 are experiencing what amounts to real freedom finally. So many of these top athletes have been under someone's thumb, probably since high school.
Not excusing many of their negative behaviors but I cut them some slack on their attitudes
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Posted on 4/12/23 at 10:15 pm to L5ut1g3r
Microcosm of society. See it in households with no present parents, see it in households with present parents. Not a racial thing, not just a single-parent thing, not just a no-parent thing.
As a society, we baby kids as an overcorrection to the days of rampant abusive environments. Coaches are afraid of pissing off kids and parents, parents are afraid of pissing off kids, and kids are enabled all the way to adulthood.
Obviously, it's not everyone, but the percentage of kids entitled and enabled from childhood to adulthood keeps growing.
As a society, we baby kids as an overcorrection to the days of rampant abusive environments. Coaches are afraid of pissing off kids and parents, parents are afraid of pissing off kids, and kids are enabled all the way to adulthood.
Obviously, it's not everyone, but the percentage of kids entitled and enabled from childhood to adulthood keeps growing.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 11:07 pm to L5ut1g3r
If I could sign a hundred something million dollar guaranteed contract, it'd probably be pretty easy. I could sit at home wiping my tears with thousand dollar bills.
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