Sports are not for weak
In the documentary “The Mask That You Live In”, the first thing that stroke me was the violence use in sports.
It really caught my intention because, as an athlete, I can’t accept such behavior.
I do karate, a sport where the goal is to hit each other. And even then, we learn to respect each other.
Of course we are here to win, and it is frustrating to loose. But getting mad and yelling at the players won’t fix anything.
When you loose there is only one thing to do, fix what didn’t work and improve what did work. Only training and hard work can do that.
Like my coach always says: “The work is never done.”
Video Game and violence
The second that jumped at me was when they talk about video game.
I firmly think that video game doesn’t encourage violent behavior. It could even reduces them.
In most case, people play video games to be someone that they cannot be in real live. Like a secret agent, a professional hitman or even a super hero.
We know this isn’t reality and that’s why it feel so good. There is no consequence, so why not enjoy it.
Most main character are stoic and without emotion. But it is over shadow by how cool they are.
If you want to feel emotion they are a lot of different media. Video game is suppose to make your heart bounce, make your adrenaline go wild, and make you like a boss.
Since it is so violent, is is a good chance to take all your rage on the game and not on a real person.
The link with Carlos story.
The part of Carlos story that caught my attention was when he spend time in a eastern country.
I founded funny how he was embarrassed with everyone being so open to physical contact.
The documentary explain it by saying that it all come to education.
The main school of thought is that we need to taught our children to be thought and strong.
But we don’t have to stop there. We can also teach them to be kind and how to deal with their emotion in a healthy way.
Happiness bring happiness. Only by surrounding yourself with people who are truly happy that you can see the light in this dark world.
I believe this is something we can learn from eastern country. It is correct to have emotion and to shared them with other.
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