He will unretire next year. But that gymnast is a quitter and you are right. People actually defended that move. Twisties is as made up as the “long haul “ nonsense. Weak .
Enjoy reading all the experts on here. This dude probably has never been in a gymnastics room, but now is the definitive expert on all things related to the sport. And apparently medical expert too.
Yet, I’m sure he bought all of Trumps NFT’s so he can “save our country”
He will unretire next year. But that gymnast is a quitter and you are right. People actually defended that move. Twisties is as made up as the “long haul “ nonsense. Weak .
The millennial generation is the most fragile cohort of the human population to roam the earth. Tyrell Terry, a 2020 draft pick for the Dallas Mavs, claims basketball gave him so much “anxiety” that he woke up unable to breathe. Role model Simone Biles taught us it’s powerful to be a mentally weak quitter who flinches at the slightest whisp of challenge. The age of grit, toughness and courage is gone; it veered off the road and hit a large roadside boulder, flipping the car in a rollover accident in the Eugene backroads.
"To most, I will be forever known as a bust, a failure, or a waste of talent," Terry wrote.
I can’t get over this thread of a bunch of middle aged losers decrying a kid as weak and blaming the “kids these days” because he doesn’t want to play basketball for a living. Who cares his reason? He doesn’t owe it to you.
the younger generation isn’t weak, it’s just more intent on choosing things that truly fulfill them, not grinding through stuff they hate because other people they don’t care about experience expect them to.
Certainly he is under no obligation to play basketball at all. But he probably owes the teams who employed him, and by extension the fans who paid his salary, an explanation.
I am continually shocked at our culture’s easy use of therapeutic language that no one can really understand or define. From the article:
”And for the first time, to be able to find my identity outside of being a basketball player.”
”…but I’m headed down a different path now, one that will hopefully lead to happiness and being able to love myself again.”
It is second nature to speak this way now. We assume that truth is found only within ourselves, that self-love is the highest virtue, and that a search for an “identity” is a noble quest, despite the fact that no one can really define what it means.
I am not sure what I mean by all this, other than our culture’s way of speaking about personal problems strikes me as deeply pretentious and self-obsessed. I don’t know this young man at all, maybe he is just trying to get through a difficult time. But I am unsure if he (or his therapist) is helping him by encouraging him to think this way.
Thanks for proving you did not read the article and know nothing about this!
QUOTE: Terry took a lengthy leave of absence for personal reasons during his rookie season in Dallas and again during training camp entering his second season. The Mavs waived him at the end of that preseason -- despite owing Terry a guaranteed $3.3 million over the next two years -- and he spent much of the 2021-22 season on a two-way deal with the Memphis Grizzlies.
What happened to the good ol' days when young players wasted their careers on cocaine or just got cut and disappeared rather than telling the world why they didn't make it?
Sounds like he has some serious mental health issues that gets worse when he competes in sports. Some athletes quit because they have physical ailments that hurt them when they train and compete too. Not sure this is any different. Why continue doing something that tears you apart?
Have you ever actually read accounts of D-Day? Tons of soldiers did in fact not storm the beach or the cliffs where the machine gun nests were, for obvious reasons. A small group, led by a few guys who took charge at the right moment, made it up or between the cliffs and thus made it possible to succeed. Planes dropped 13,000 bombs, most missing their targets. Naval bombardment failed to destroy the German emplacements. Most who reached the beaches--many didn't--often were seasick, without communication, without officers, without working weapons. So, many huddled on the beach and under the cliffs without storming them. Most would do the same thing under the circumstances.
As if this type of thing never happened before now.
30 years ago, nobody would have reported on quitting do to anxiety. They would have simply stopped playing and viewed as a bust. It is way easier to complain about "the millennial generation" these days though than to try and understand what is actually occurring so... carry on with your whining, I guess.
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