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.
nothing funnier to me than people who decry millennials as the weakest generation without discussing the absolute worst generation that raised them. The younger boomers and the older Gen X'ers are the worst parents that have ever existed. They're the ones that saw their kids crying once and demanded the coach give everyone a trophy. It certainly wasn't the kid.
This. My generation (I´m 53) is the worst parental generation in human history. When i got bad grades in school my parents asked me "how do you explain this?" When today´s kids get bad grades their parents ask the same question to the teachers.
This is true, except let’s be real. The quality of teachers today is far worse for many reasons that are and aren’t their fault.
Anyway, if this kid saved and invests well and never has to work another day in his life, that’s the dream, isn’t it?
The main thing is he supports himself in some way that isn’t a drag on society. Basketball wasn’t going to last him forever anyway.
Agree with the OP. Instead of leaving a job you don't enjoy and moving on with your life, you should take a lesson from the Boomers and just keep working in the same job for the rest of your working life while whining and complaining about it every day of your life.
nothing funnier to me than people who decry millennials as the weakest generation without discussing the absolute worst generation that raised them. The younger boomers and the older Gen X'ers are the worst parents that have ever existed. They're the ones that saw their kids crying once and demanded the coach give everyone a trophy. It certainly wasn't the kid.
He is a zoomer and his parents are millennials. Get with the times old man!
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.
Most pro athletes don't make it past 2-3 years. The only difference is this person is announcing it.
Is there really a reward for fighting past your anxiety? Our parents probably did it and then got divorced, depressed without therapy, and died younger than most other people in the Western world.
I think as long as you find some way of supporting yourself and your family, it's healthy to acknowledge your anxiety and manage it within reason.
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.
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.
Most pro athletes don't make it past 2-3 years. The only difference is this person is announcing it.
Is there really a reward for fighting past your anxiety? Our parents probably did it and then got divorced, depressed without therapy, and died younger than most other people in the Western world.
I think as long as you find some way of supporting yourself and your family, it's healthy to acknowledge your anxiety and manage it within reason.
I think anxiety is a very serious problem today. But I’m not sure we deal with it any better than our grandparents did. Maybe even worse.
Anxiety has always been around but people weren’t as open about it.
The Eagles pro bowl offensive lineman, Lane Johnson suffers from it. He sat out a few games last year dealing with it. Another pro bowl lineman of theirs, Brandon Brooks retired last year and suffered badly from anxiety.
These athletes speaking out is good for society and gives others dealing with it comfort.
Dude's made $4-5million already by 22. Probably way better than any of the other Stanford grads. His job (field of expertise) was giving him great anxiety. A lot of people don't have the financial flexibility to leave, but he was able to, but a lot of people end up leaving their field and switching completely. Good for him for leaving a job before it became destructive enough to force him to leave his life like Cobain, Bourdain, Hemingway, Marilyn, CCornell, or Robin Williams.
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.