Do pro sports/Olympics bum anyone else out?

[forlornhope]

I'm wondering if anyone else is bummed out by the Olympics or pro sports. Surprisingly, I'm as bummed out about big wins as I am about my team or country losing. Like my team actually won the Super Bowl and yet I can't take any comfort in that victory. If anything, it's a reminder at how much I suck. I've never been good at sports, I'm 30 lbs overweight, and currently unemployed as a tech worker with no prospects. I wish I had the talent and commitment to be a top athlete but instead I feel like the opposite of a winner. And while in the past I could feel like I was part of a winning franchise (aka I used to own season tickets to the Hawks), now I just feel like a fraud.

 

[tonicer]

Meh those pro anything people are lame and extremely specialized. I rather be an allrounder kind of guy. I can run pretty well and do calisthenics pretty well and fight pretty well and so on. I won't win any medals but i am proud of what i achieved. I was always the skinny kid with glasses that nobody wanted on their team back in school. I am working on being able to do one arm push ups for a while now and i think in a few months i might be able to do it. Set yourself small goals and don't ever compare yourself to those freaks of nature.

 

[forlornhope]

Meh those pro anything people are lame and extremely specialized. I rather be an allrounder kind of guy. I can run pretty well and do calisthenics pretty well and fight pretty well and so on. I won't win any medals but i am proud of what i achieved. I was always the skinny kid with glasses that nobody wanted on their team back in school. I am working on being able to do one arm push ups for a while now and i think in a few months i might be able to do it. Set yourself small goals and don't ever compare yourself to those freaks of nature.

Good point. I'm trying to work out more when I have the energy. It just sucks I used to have a good career till AI killed it. And my loss of a job plus all the other things I deal with is starting to feel crushing.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

I was a state champion wrestler in high school who quit in college. Envy and regret drive me crazy when I watch sports.

 

[MyLifeisHell]

Most people don't have the wherewithal to become top athletes. But I feel you, that's why I never could get into watching professional sports, it makes me feel too bad about my lack of athletic prowess.

But you don't have to be athletic as such to devote yourself to fitness. And the good thing about fitness (and the way it should be approached, or tried to) is that you can view it absolute terms. You only have to focus on improving your own abilities; what other people are capable of is not relevant. Especially since as another good thing it's one of the very fee domains in life where reward is proportional to effort.

 

[tonicer]

Good point. I'm trying to work out more when I have the energy. It just sucks I used to have a good career till AI killed it. And my loss of a job plus all the other things I deal with is starting to feel crushing.

I know how you feel. I lost my last job 3 fucking years ago and now every interview i get invited too ends in either ghosting or decline. I am so fucking done with looking for work but i have no other choice.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

I really don't follow sports anymore. It's all become obscene to me because of all the money in it. Nothing is about "pure" sport anymore, iykwim. The last enjoyable sports I watched was years ago, and that was girls high school softball. They played just for the fun of it. That being said, I don't like what happened to the Olympic US Rhythm Dance team, not because they're US, but because they were better, imo. I think they got robbed of the gold. I think 90% of the judging is crooked. But, I can't do anything about it, so who cares, right ? I guess I really don't care.

 

[Ligottian]

Not nearly as much as American college football.

 

[Off_Switch]

No offense...

...but as an adult, what pleasure do get in spending your time (and likely money) to cheer for other adults? Superior adults that get to live wonderful lives, while you live a mediocre life of suffering? How can doing this not drive your self-esteem down even further?

I will never understand why society gives millions of dollars a year to people that play a game, all while being fine with people that really matter, likes CNA in the hospital that have to clean up our crap and piss, barely receiving a livable wage.

My best guess is that it has to with "Bread and Circuses", like the ancient Romans. I encourage you to look it up if you have never heard of this concept before. It's the only logical explanation.