Yes, there has been a lot of buzz in Washington D.C., about the use and abuse of anabolic steroids in sports, particularly in baseball. It's funny but lately I've been thinking about it and I have different thoughts about that topic.
Fist of all, what is a baseball player? To me, a professional "game" player. I know, that sounded a little ironic but, we have to admit it, despite all the glory and all the money, those guys (not only baseball but every mayor sport player) are no more than talented people (at least physically), trained to do what they want to do, play games and getting paid for that. Until there, everything's alright. The problem comes when this society (on purpose, by the way) prentends to make them heroes, for our kids, four our youths, and a few adults that can't proccess the difference between a real hero and a guy with a stick in his hand trying to hit a leather ball.
If those guys do their job in a prefessional manner, if they do it with the neccessary ethics to keep going without hurting anyone, perfect. To me the problem is us, the parents that impose their kids, one way or another, the neccessity to see those guys as heroes, even motivating them to become one of them, not because the virtues of the sports and physical activities in general, but for what it "means" in terms of money, glory and misunderstood leadership, to be a professional sports-man. Same thing happens with the so called "artists", but that's another blog, promise.
Ladys and gentlemen, if baseball players use performing drugs (and sometimes recreational drugs, too) in order to "perform" better in their professional activities, who cares? Let them do with their bodies and spirits whatever they want, they're adults and should know what their doing. But "Society", please don't try to impose those guys as role-models, because they are not. What about teachers? what about scientists, what about real artists? Aren't they more suit to become sombody's heros? To me, a kindergarten or elementary teacher is a real hero, a man or woman dealing with our kids and trying to educate them in the most critical stage of our lives, which is the childhood, that is heroic (not to mention the money those poor guys make). A scientist hidden in the laboratory for long days, weeks, months, years, trying to find a cure for a given disease or a vaccine for some virus, isn't that a motif to make him/her a hero? A writer, a musician, or any artist (the real ones!) working their art and craft alone, dedicated, in order to deliver all the emotional charge we feel when we hear a very nice piece of music or read a good novel or see a moving painting, what about them?
Just a final thought, we have to start thinking the right way, stop the blind race the establishment wants us to follow for their benefit. As simple as to contemplate, draw conclusions and take actions.
Fist of all, what is a baseball player? To me, a professional "game" player. I know, that sounded a little ironic but, we have to admit it, despite all the glory and all the money, those guys (not only baseball but every mayor sport player) are no more than talented people (at least physically), trained to do what they want to do, play games and getting paid for that. Until there, everything's alright. The problem comes when this society (on purpose, by the way) prentends to make them heroes, for our kids, four our youths, and a few adults that can't proccess the difference between a real hero and a guy with a stick in his hand trying to hit a leather ball.
If those guys do their job in a prefessional manner, if they do it with the neccessary ethics to keep going without hurting anyone, perfect. To me the problem is us, the parents that impose their kids, one way or another, the neccessity to see those guys as heroes, even motivating them to become one of them, not because the virtues of the sports and physical activities in general, but for what it "means" in terms of money, glory and misunderstood leadership, to be a professional sports-man. Same thing happens with the so called "artists", but that's another blog, promise.
Ladys and gentlemen, if baseball players use performing drugs (and sometimes recreational drugs, too) in order to "perform" better in their professional activities, who cares? Let them do with their bodies and spirits whatever they want, they're adults and should know what their doing. But "Society", please don't try to impose those guys as role-models, because they are not. What about teachers? what about scientists, what about real artists? Aren't they more suit to become sombody's heros? To me, a kindergarten or elementary teacher is a real hero, a man or woman dealing with our kids and trying to educate them in the most critical stage of our lives, which is the childhood, that is heroic (not to mention the money those poor guys make). A scientist hidden in the laboratory for long days, weeks, months, years, trying to find a cure for a given disease or a vaccine for some virus, isn't that a motif to make him/her a hero? A writer, a musician, or any artist (the real ones!) working their art and craft alone, dedicated, in order to deliver all the emotional charge we feel when we hear a very nice piece of music or read a good novel or see a moving painting, what about them?
Just a final thought, we have to start thinking the right way, stop the blind race the establishment wants us to follow for their benefit. As simple as to contemplate, draw conclusions and take actions.
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