Why all the hoopla for a guy who plays golf? He does not make national or international policy. He does not have a nuclear site being built in his backyard.
He did what so many men and women do….he screwed up!
The amount of time spent on dissecting every word of a fourteen minute prepared speech, that was obviously written for him and practiced beforehand with a media trainer, was pretty bland.
Yet, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and all the national news pundits gave their points of view about Tiger, over and over and over.
There was, however, one morsel that caught my interest. Tiger talked about his Buddhist roots as his mother sat front and center with a non-emotional Buddhist look on her face. He talked briefly about a basic and powerful teaching that hopefully the whole world will begin to embrace; craving does not bring happiness.
I thought about the back story, what happened over the years as Tiger was seduced by fame and fortune, I wondered who had the courage to tell him he was “looking for love in all the wrong places”?
And then my mind turned to the media, to the overindulgence and hype around a young man’s dark night of the soul; the need to grab onto every word, every pause in his brief comments, his brief mea culpa.
And my big question, to all of us is “What are we craving? Why do we need to feed the “hungry ghost” of being voyeurs of the cult of celebrity? Why can’t we find something more productive to do with our time?”
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i really enjoyed while reading your blog since you always come with something new which may not be find in other blog……
People with high stress levels they are unable to cope with are vulnerable to abusing drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and usually lack the discipline or are too depressed to exercise or eat a healthy, nutritious diet.
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Your reflections brought to mind an episode on the Monteil Williams show after the fatal crash that claimed Princess Diana’s life. During this episode, Monteil kept building up the crowd’s anticipation of photos he supposedly had of Princess Diana’s last few moments alive after the crash. During the program, he did a discussion on who was actually responsible for the crash – the photographers in hot pursuit or we as the general public who are willing to pay to see the candid shots that get and sell to the tabloids for top dollar. At the end of the program, Monteil pretended to show the pictures, but actually showed a blank screen. Afterwards, he closed with the question he asked all of us to ask ourselves, which relates to what you were referring to – What inside of us drives us to want to see such sensationalism? What is it about seeing someone else’s pain that attracts and appeals to us? This is something I feel we all need to reflect on within ourselves as it definitely has an impact on how we show up in the world, and how the world as a whole then shows up!