“I don’t think I can do this anymore, I’m honestly lost at the moment. I’ve bleed for this team for 27 years and I can’t take the feeling of failure anymore. I honesty need to sit down and think if I should support this club going forward or just be an AFL fan and enjoy my football again.”
Context for the above/title: This is a Facebook post from a user/fan of a sporting team that was disappointed about the team’s performance/loss. The sport is AFL or football, which is an Australian sport; a combination of football (soccer), rugby pretty much. Not that the sport specifically matters, what I’m getting at here is the evident disappointment, the evident ATTACHMENT and thus emotions/feelings, ups, downs, joy, disappointment, regret etc that goes along with such an unwavering and UNHEALTHY attachment. To a SPORTING team.
I can only say this now after walking a process in relation to sport/attachment, myself in relation to teams that I was the same about (felt the same as the above quoted comment).
Now how I see such a quoted comment, it is an astonishment reaction from me, also a laughter at times, but mainly an astonishment. Why? Because it is a sporting team..
I’ve seen some cool Facebook posts about the passion of people/supporters of any sporting team and a quote like “Imagine if people were THIS supportive/passionate about global issues such as poverty, abuse, capitalism etc.”
Soooooo true!
And I’ve said before that I have no issue with sport itself. I like sport. It can be great for fitness, for socialising, laughing, coming together etc, but that is when we take away all these dangerous and unnecessary attachments we have to a sport/team etc.
Sport can exist, but it can’t be a priority whatsoever in the current climate of the world. There’s too many, WAY too many genuine issues that exist on earth that must be taken care of and attended to FIRST and foremost.