Paradise wrote:Who the hell would be in a good place knowing anything said will be used against you ontop of anything significantly personal that you are holding in?
Fans and media have also done a PATHETIC job of creating a safe space. If it’s something personally serious. We will gossip about it. If it’s not something serious to our standards, he will be ridiculed. That is beyond insanity and it will cause anyone to lose it as well.
I’ve seen alot of fans themselves show how mentally ill they are hiding behind a RealGM account or social media page.
Kevin Porter Jr’s behavior is being discussed like he did nothing wrong by talking heads but Kyrie should retire over a missed week?!
It’s a two way street.
I’m actually extremely disappointed in Nets fans. The smug entitlement of this fan base is getting too much.
One problem, as I see it, because it's actually quite common with depression, is Kyrie is looking around at a fallen world and thinks it's his responsibility to fix it, or even more daunting, that he's capable of fixing it even if he wanted too. Now I realize people who are not Christians (like Kyrie) have a problem with terms like "fallen world". Okay, fair enough, then let's just call it what it is, a world in turmoil. It's cruel, malevolent and rife with suffering. But the beginning of wisdom is the acceptance that YOU CAN'T FIX IT. No one person can fix it. In fact, no collective, no matter how big, can fix it. People have been trying for millennium's and all they accomplish, AT BEST, is to create more chaos. And even if you do manage to take just one big problem and fix it, your life is still destined to be filled with suffering. You'll be betrayed, malevolent people will try to hurt you (and may succeed - see Jesus, MLK and a whole host of people who tried to make a better world). And if you're lucky enough to survive all of the suffering that accompanies life, even for people who seemingly have it all, you can't dodge growing old, sickness, the death of loved ones, betrayal, and eventually your own sickness and death. Wisdom is accepting that life is filled with suffering,
with some occasional good moments you should try to enjoy, because you'll have a lot more reasons to feel awful when all is said and done. And that's it, THAT'S LIFE, the moment you accept it and stop imagining you can fix the world when better people than you have tried,
and frankly most of us can't even fix ourselves (but we're gonna fix a fallen world?) is the beginning of wisdom.
Look man, I know suffering. I lost my mother, my father and my brother all in the space of two years. My mother to Parkinson's, so I just watched her fade away while keeping my promise to take care of her. My father a year later from a massive and unexpected heart attack, no doubt brought on by both losing his wife and the physical toll it took on him to help me take care of her. Shortly afterwards my brother was diagnosed with ALS, I watched him fade away, and within a year he was dead too, looking like a skeleton, a shell of his former self. I'm not ashamed to admit I needed professional help to cope with so much suffering in such a short time, and I didn't start feeling like myself again until I came to grips with the truth of life, that it's mostly suffering and it's only a matter of time before it starts catching up with you, but most importantly there's nothing you can do to fix it other than accept it and remember you still have a responsibility to yourself and others, no matter how much your impulse is to QUIT, and everyone who discovers the truth about life has that impulse, that's why it's important to speak to a professional and/or put your faith in God that there's better world on the other side with no suffering, aging, sickness, racism, CRUELTY, death and all the rest of it that can drive us crazy if we let it.
I understand not everyone believes in God and respect their freedom to choose, but for a lot of people, particularly those who are going thru the worst of times, losing loved ones, being abandoned or betrayed etc., it's that idea that gives them enough comfort to survive. And for those who don't believe, they can see a professional therapist, or both. For me it was both, but people should seek some kind of help when they need it.
