Revenge, Hatred and All Those Other Silly Emotions
I Shouldn't have hated him like this
Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi. Just one name. Did rounds of my mind 24 hours a day. The football fanatic that I am, I'm so over Cristiano Ronaldo's game, I just could not take the fact that this new kid was taking centrestage.
In the starting it was still sustainable, it was still bearable. Then things got waaaay out of hand. I opened up Lionel Messi hateclubs. I ran a an Anti-Messi football page on Facebook. I tried to defame him in every possible way on evry possible public platform. Through pictures, electronic media, newsletters, social networking sites, the Internet I did not get a hang of myself - at all.
In some time though, I myself got severely frustrated. What the fuck am I doing? The guy does not deserve this. He was just not worth THIS. He's much better than what my perception is about him. He is much more respectable. Has my fanatism reached such a level that I had become BLIND? That I cannot respect my favourite's rival? That I can try to put him to shame? I was putting no one but MYSELF to shame.
I aked myself - what have I achieved that I earn the right to disrespect someone? I know opinions matter, but outwardly displaying a wrong opinion, as if it is the best, being one hell of a narrow-minded person, is not less than acting like any bigot or terrorist.
Sheer jealousy can turn into hatred. It's such a shame that people like me exist.
It makes me sick today, that I could have ever even have had such a mindset. I have my right to favouritism, to expressing my opinion - but defamation is the limit. It's a crime. A proven crime.
Yeah, be a relentless fan,no doubt. But don't try to cross the line. I agree competetiveness is essential, extremely essential. But hatred is not. Respect in competetiveness is more important than jealousy. You are a sore and bad loser if it is to you, more important.
Just try to remember that true winners are those who respec thect their rivals alongside being confident.
In the starting it was still sustainable, it was still bearable. Then things got waaaay out of hand. I opened up Lionel Messi hateclubs. I ran a an Anti-Messi football page on Facebook. I tried to defame him in every possible way on evry possible public platform. Through pictures, electronic media, newsletters, social networking sites, the Internet I did not get a hang of myself - at all.
In some time though, I myself got severely frustrated. What the fuck am I doing? The guy does not deserve this. He was just not worth THIS. He's much better than what my perception is about him. He is much more respectable. Has my fanatism reached such a level that I had become BLIND? That I cannot respect my favourite's rival? That I can try to put him to shame? I was putting no one but MYSELF to shame.
I aked myself - what have I achieved that I earn the right to disrespect someone? I know opinions matter, but outwardly displaying a wrong opinion, as if it is the best, being one hell of a narrow-minded person, is not less than acting like any bigot or terrorist.
Sheer jealousy can turn into hatred. It's such a shame that people like me exist.
It makes me sick today, that I could have ever even have had such a mindset. I have my right to favouritism, to expressing my opinion - but defamation is the limit. It's a crime. A proven crime.
Yeah, be a relentless fan,no doubt. But don't try to cross the line. I agree competetiveness is essential, extremely essential. But hatred is not. Respect in competetiveness is more important than jealousy. You are a sore and bad loser if it is to you, more important.
Just try to remember that true winners are those who respec thect their rivals alongside being confident.
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