Tiger Woods won the Masters for the fifth time in his career on April 14, 2019. It came after multiple back surgeries and the feeling around golf that he would never win again. It is being called the best comeback in all of sports, and the best sports moment of 2019. It’s only April.
I tend to agree that it was a big moment and it is pretty cool that Tiger won another major championship, but I feel like we oversimplify/over glorify almost everything in sports and society now a days. The Washington Post headline said:
It’s almost miraculous’: Tiger Woods’s return from back surgery is a medical marvel.
Not sure it is miraculous, but it is impressive. Do we overreact to the now a little too much in this country, or am I the only one who thinks so? Every time an athlete, a politician, or just a regular everyday person pulls off something that is impressive, we try to say it is “the best thing we have ever witnessed” or “historically the worst thing we have ever seen”.
Overreaction is a part of our society, and it is a part of our culture. I am not immune to it either. I overreact all the time. We (most of us) all do. Is there a way to fix it? I’m not sure at this point. It is burnt into our DNA. Historically, people like Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Dahmer, and others were actually some of the worst in history. Because a president did something you disagree with doesn’t mean he is like one of those historically bad individuals. It just means you disagree with him.
Maybe I am beating a dead horse with this post. Maybe I am the only one that is bothered by the over dramatization of our society. Everything in the world does not have to be the best or the worst, it can just be something good or bad. If you read history or are a fan of it, no one in our country has ever done anything as bad as some of the people I listed earlier in this piece. Sure, we have done a ton of bad things, some atrocious. People will continue to do good and bad, and some of them will go down as the greatest or worst in history. But lets stop saying everything that happens is the best or the worst ever.
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