When we last left the Tiger through the Woods post from last week, he was accused of having an indiscretion, and I mentioned the forest for the trees and that we need to leave this man and his family in peace while they figure out their problems. I vowed to stay away from reading the fray and to rise above the smut.
Look, I don’t respect those who project one thing and live another. I try these days to live a more authentic life than that, and those who go that direction tend to make me want to do the same thing. So, I try and stay away from them.
That said, let’s talk about Tiger and his real accomplishments. Tiger did not cure cancer. He didn’t even give away a significant portion of his money to cure cancer. He is very good at taking a long stick and hitting a ball into a hole in the shortest number of strokes possible. Now it turns out he does the same thing in his personal life. How’s that working for you Tiger? And, while I get it takes a certain talent to play golf, it doesn’t make you worthy of weeks of press headlines. I’m sure there is a hero in Iraq who deserves more headlines than Tiger.
They keep asking if Tiger will recover from this? Huh? Will America recover? We took yet another illusion of a human being and made it a reality. We bought stupid cars from a bankrupt company because he said to. I understand buying a golf club because he said to; the man knows what clubs work and what clubs don’t. But drinks? And cars? And running shoes? The lesson here is to us, not to Tiger. Stop offering our sports stars up as anything other than what they are – good at their sport.
How many need fall before we get that what a person does in their public life belongs to us and what they do in their private life does not. Let’s look back. There was Kobe Bryant. There was Michael Phelps. And, so on. It’s shame on us yet again. I have never bought anything because someone famous told me to.
May I add that I’m glad she apparently is leaving him. I assume she will head back to Norway, or Denmark or wherever she comes from and try to regroup for her life to move somewhere forward. You go girl, and do not allow yourself to be a victim. It’s so debilitating.
Well last week I said “I will watch and read the news and eat it all up. I don’t need to know but I want to know. Nature of man I guess — to revel in other’s misery.”
I feel like a terrible person now having revelled—after following a week of TRANSGRESSIONS and I am sick and disgusted and don’t want to hear anymore. Yeah he didn’t cure cancer but he was a man we admired, had the power to influence and could do many great things. We need people like that. People who give us hope and pride, empower us to better ourselves and believe that a dreams can come true.
At least we still have OPRAH……
Elin has bought a house on an island near Stockholm. I hope she can find some privacy there, but I doubt it. I’m sure this is huge news in Sweden, too. At least the children are still babies and won’t understand all this for a while, but it’s horrible for them to ever have to know all this about their father.
New joke going around: What big jungle cat is Mr. Woods named for?
Cheetah