Sports is important to a lot of people. They attach to it as a kind of metadrama that adds meaning to a workaday life. I try not to judge too hard since I follow culture and politics and shitpost about it here for basically the same reason (albeit not in such an emotionally-attached-to-outcomes way).
But as far as metadrama goes, this Kobe thing is the tops because it's tragedy. He was (as I understand anyway) one of the best at something. He died young in a freak accident. What's more, his teenage daughter and some of her teammates were with them so part of his family line and other unsuspecting innocents were snuffed out as well.
If sports is one of the things you care about, it'd be hard not to care more about this than bat fever in Ching Chong Land or the impending Hoodooing on Mumbo-Jumbo Island -- the first is about as common as a last-minute, game-saving 3-pointer and the second probably like referee making a bad call.
People are sucking energies out of you.
Are you suggesting that understanding the motivations of other people diminishes your own intensity and inner sense of direction? If that's what you're saying, I agree with that. But, it has its advantages too.
I think where I'm going with this is that you should pay attention to these things for your own benefit, not for other peoples' benefit.
Kobe was built up as a hero of sorts for a generation or two.
The man died, along with a bunch of children (one being his own), which should be an emotional hit on plenty of people. Hell some grown men I knew claimed publicly that they cried on his behalf.
Imagine my shock, being more aware than them, finding out that they have no worries of allowing someone manipulate them emotionally like that...
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