[ SECRET POST #2718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2718 ⌋

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Re: playing with balls

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up in a house that valued the arts, academics, and sports all at once so I never really understood why I should have to choose. They all have their place.

Sports can be very useful for a child's education. For example, my cousin as a child did horribly in school until one summer his father got him on a baseball team. It provided an outlet for him to get his excess energy out so he was able to concentrate better in school. He graduated the top of his class and he was the football star at his school. He would tell you that if it wasn't for sports he wouldn't have succeeded in school. Sports gave him something, they inspired him to work hard, and they provided him an escape from the emotional (and probably physical) abuse he suffered from his mother. He developed a strong work ethic and he developed some very strong friendships with his teammates that provided him a support group. He learned how to work with others and how to lead others.

Are sports overvalued in our society? Yes, but at the same time that doesn't mean that sports suddenly have no value. Just because you don't find something inspirational or useful doesn't mean someone else will not. There are real problems in every industry: misogyny, racism, homophobia, rape culture, over spending etc. The same problems that exist in sports also exists in academics and arts. I have seen artists and academics who get away with horrible things because they are the best in their fields. That is not a sports problem but a problem with our society as a whole. Sports are what society values most right now so the problems are certainly larger because of that, but really no industry should be spending what the sports industries spend yearly. Yikes.

I do love sports, though not soccer/football in particular so I'm pretty meh about the World Cup, but I also love the arts and academics. They all have value to me. There are athletes who have inspired me as well as many artists and scientists. I feel they all have their place. Just because I love sports doesn't mean that I don't value the other stuff as well.