Do health and sports have any connection between them?
Of course, sports do provide us with the best kind of physical exercise.
The kind of exercise that one enjoys doing!
Not the kind of exercise that one does as a sense of duty for keeping the health and body in shape!
One enjoys playing, and so, one plays.
Exercise is the side-benefit one gets out of enjoying playing sports.
One doesn’t need making any sense-of-duty kind of a dreary effort and still the muscles are exercised!
Such simple a thing!
Looks like health and sports are like hands and gloves.
So easy and full of fun do they make our life!
But do they really do so?
Do we really play when we play sports, or do we only make an effort to win them?
All the sports on earth have been designed to enjoy through an effort to win them.
When you lose a game, you feel bad.
Can this be called the sportsman spirit?
Sportsman spirit bothers not for win or lose.
But the sports are designed either to win or to lose!
What an irony!
We are contradicting our own self.
We are taking health and spots away from each other!
We, on earth, have designed sports as war.
War thrills us.
But thrill is no enjoyment, it’s only a kind of entertainment.
Entertainment that we need in order to come out of the dreariness of our life!
Life that has no fun left in it, in its normal course of activity.
We need something that compensates for the dreariness, life has fallen victim to.
That something has to be a thrilling one since it is a reaction and not an action in itself.
War gives humans a thrill.
So, we have designed all our sports on the pattern of war only.
If this win or lose is taken out of the design of sports, they will be dreary as life in itself is.
There may get established a connection between health and sports then, but we will no more enjoy playing them.
That means it’s not the process of hitting the football that gives us joy but the displaying of the scoreboard that does so.
Displaying (dis-playing), linguistically also means something against the spirit of playing!
We don’t know any other way to design our sports.
Fighting a war!
And we call it team spirit!
And we teach team building in our management courses, based on this spirit of fighting a war against those who are not a part of our team!
Isn’t it what gang forming too, is?
Are we turning our best brains and our best bodies into a kind of respected gangsters?
Sometimes you have to learn to dominate your rage
The Italian player, Antonio Cassano, who currently plays for the Real Madrid, was removed temporarily from the trainings after insulting his coach Fabio Capello.
The player was sanctioned because of an in disciplinary act, after the leagues game last Saturday, which was won by the Real Madrid.
Actually, according to the information provided, the player did not play during the whole game and he complained because he said he deserved to.
After the warming stage during the second half and see that the game was on its way to end and he was out of the field, the player directed some negative comments to his coach, as the following: You are such a crook I fought for you at Rome and this way you pay me
Those were the words Cassano told Capello and that argument cost him the trainings for an indefinite time. Cassano will be also penalized financially according with the internal club rules.
Undoubtedly, there was an absence of self control, sometimes you have to think before acting, even tough it is difficult, you never know when a few words can cost you this much.
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