sports. why are some people so negative towards them?

i like sports but i have boobs so its hard for me to play them.
but i admire those that can.
if anything, i like to run! ooh fun

 

keep on trucking.

 

Oh man!! You tryna' make an old man cry??

 

now.... .. yup.

 

I like that I am quiet and like to do things on my own. So according to you I should be a failure who will never accomplish anything

Yet somehow I am succeeding at life...

 

I think you are doing a huge disservice to your children if you choose not to enroll them in sports. The phenomenon we are discussing here isn't "natural athletes" being attracted to sports but instead sports making children into athletes. I've taught gym to the same grade level in poor and rich areas, and rich areas have students that are on the whole much better athletes - because they grew up playing sports whereas most poorer kids did not. When you watch 9 year-olds that can't jump on two feet and land, the value of childhood sports becomes pretty apparent.

 

I think most of the people against them are bad at them and still bitter about high school gym class.

Some people seem to think them as primal practices of war though.

 

well, only you can answer that question, hence why i wasn't implying it toward anybody in particular.

point is there's the exception, but then there's the rule. as it stands, the cliche is unashamedly true. it's a subjective argument, but we all know it is the correct one.

quiet people, usually, do not change the world.

 

it's funny. those who hated gym class, really, could have really done with it.

you don't get picked in gym class, you resent the lesson and wish you didn't have to take it. why?

you weren't picked because you were shy, unconfident, unpopular, fat, lazy - who knows, kids are mean. point is, had you played a sport in your younger, more developmental years, you may just be the star player on the school football team.

you would have learned the value of determination, confidence, leadership, team work and most importantly - never to accept defeat.

you feel defeated in that gym class, why? because you have accepted the criticism.

 

I'm not having children, so not a problem. And when did I say that I would refuse to enroll them in sports even if I had them? It would be up to them.... I would not force them into sports if they didn't enjoy it. I think THAT is a huge disservice to children. Sitka, you really made quite a few presumptions about me and you really don't know what you are talking about.

IB... I still think that you are wrong about not playing sports = quiet

There are many things that I enjoy that I think are worthwhile, but I would never presume to tell everyone that they would be a better person if they did the same activity.

Also, there are plenty of other things a person could do to build community that has nothing to do with sports.

 

I do way more physical activity than most people do... it just happens to be things like hiking, hoop dancing or running or other things that have nothing to do with team sports.

For the record, I am not resentful of atheletes, I just think it is weird that everyone is insisting that everyone MUST PLAY SPORTS!!!!! OR ELSE!!!!

:love:

 

Perhaps to put the argue to rest one could ask the question, "Do you like exercise but dislike sports?"

If one enjoyed exercise but disliked sports, there'd be good reason to assume it's either because they're not good at them, or they don't like the mentality behind them.

 

Einstein and Newton were introverts, so is Warren Buffet.

 

Thank you A lot of scientists are introverts... and that is how I plan to change the world so it fits

 

So was Edgar Allan Poe, many poets and authors, musicians, etc.

 

It just seems to me that while one could argue that introverts are destined to lose the shouting matches of the world -- they are also most likely the ones to shout dissent and encourage change.

 

I definitely think it takes all kinds to get change happening. Even if the quiet ones are the ones encouraging change, sometimes they need the loud ones to get the message out there

I am of the opinion that people who like sports are just fine, and people who don't like sports are just fine. Introverts are just fine, extroverts are just fine. Ect...

 

you are wrong there, actually. einstein was diagnosed with a learning disability and was claimed to be incapable of being educated.

and warren buffet is possibly the biggest influence on american stock trading. just because he lives in a little house in the country somewhere, that doesn't make him an introvert.

i mean, look at the way he made his money. self assurance. this statement is so wrong it hurts, actually.

 

you're confusing confidence and arrogance, you know that right? confident doesn't mean being that loud aloof fool, not always anyways

it's about self belief.

 

sylvia plath was an author, she stuck her head in an oven. these occupations can thrive on negativity, not positivity.