A little different direction but still the same.Here is an example of how people place the professional athlete on a different level. Are they that different , they do make alot more money but they are still human.
We have a local player who plays for our professional football team the Cincinnati Bengals and he is giving them an ultimatum either trade me to a different a team or I am going to retire. The media and local fan base is treating him like he ows the team something and that he is a quitter. So I ask the question what would any regular person do when it came to your job, if your not happy what do you do you look for other employment or pursue other options, so I ask another question what if you won the lottery, because basically that is what a sports athlete has done. If you had an upwards of 50 million in your account because you won the lottery what would you do? He is an unhappy employee who wants to pursue other options just like you or I would, except he has a huge cushion and honestly if I had that much money I would not work ever again or do something that I was very passionate about. There is such a hypocracey within the sports world I mean if the media and the fan base feel they are not playing to the standard that we think they should we want them traded, but if they want to leave we think they are quitting on us.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
The Ideal Self
The ideal self is something that I think everyone wants for themselves. Social Media allows for this happen.
Although I am on facebook, I have always been amused to the people who have friended you when your not really friends, but they know of you. When I first got on facebook I would receive friend requests from people who I did not even converse with in highschool. At the same time I started doing the same, friending people who I knew, but didn't really know. What I was intrigued about was not really being their friend but seeing how they turned out since high school. Comparing myself to others and then wanting to tweek my profile so I would appear to be something that I wasn't. As much I as I wanted to I did not, I had enough people on their that knew what was going on in my life, so exagerating was never an option and I'm glad I didn't.
Social Media allows for you to become something that your not, everyone wants to feel good about themselves and to feel that people are impressed with you, but what happens when you meet the person and have gotten away from your actual self, your ideal self creates a misrepresentation of you.
Although I am on facebook, I have always been amused to the people who have friended you when your not really friends, but they know of you. When I first got on facebook I would receive friend requests from people who I did not even converse with in highschool. At the same time I started doing the same, friending people who I knew, but didn't really know. What I was intrigued about was not really being their friend but seeing how they turned out since high school. Comparing myself to others and then wanting to tweek my profile so I would appear to be something that I wasn't. As much I as I wanted to I did not, I had enough people on their that knew what was going on in my life, so exagerating was never an option and I'm glad I didn't.
Social Media allows for you to become something that your not, everyone wants to feel good about themselves and to feel that people are impressed with you, but what happens when you meet the person and have gotten away from your actual self, your ideal self creates a misrepresentation of you.
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