tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387409300437595450.post4513434176472760878..comments2023-05-12T11:17:28.809-04:00Comments on SportsLeader: Athletes - Bullying - SuicidesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6387409300437595450.post-68392507722691782592010-10-08T10:58:34.483-04:002010-10-08T10:58:34.483-04:00Lou,
this is so profoundly true, thank you.
Someti...Lou,<br />this is so profoundly true, thank you.<br />Sometimes messages can be just so succinctly put and the answers to problems are so obviously evident. It's actually humorous at times,but can be very tragic. You have captured that here.<br /> TRUTH, in itself, is almost always humorous. Heck the best comedy skits are all about the obvious truths in our daily lives that happen regularly, yet go undetected or unconsidered. The comedian just magnifies and exposes what keeps slipping by us,then we laugh and say "OH Yeah!" "That's Right!" "ha ha ha"!For example, George Carlin says "Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway?"<br /> This is a case tragic deaths, so by no means do I find humor in this. But this is what I do see, outright "obviousness". We can put our eyes on the bullies and say we have "a bully problem" and look for solutions to the problem. Or we can take our eyes off the "problem" and put them on another tragic truth, some men just choose not to mentor boys while knowing in their hearts that it is the right thing to do, and in fact that they themselves know that they could have benefitted from more as youngsters.<br /> so we can look at these lives lost, and say, "sheesh, if they only had someone to talk to, they would still be here today", or we can say "if we as adults, all of us, practiced the Virtue of generosity and gave ourselves to others through the simple act of mentoring, there wouldn't have been a bully for these dead teenagers to have discussed". <br /> The problem is with us, the men. That's the TRUTH, and that ain't funny.As a group we are "Parked, engine off, on the TRUTHWAY"dan duddynoreply@blogger.com