Just ran into this quote from Brian Phillips: Or look at it this way: Say Jonathan Martin had three children, two boys and a girl. Say the youngest was 2 months old and the oldest was 3 years old and they all died in a fire. Would you call him weak for missing some games over this? No, because you would understand that he was in unbearable pain, that he was literally crazy with hurt, and you would want to support him because, to your mind, the pain would have a valid cause. But what makes a badly suffering person incapable of functioning isnt the validity of the cause, its the extremity of the pain. And sometimes — because brains break! — its possible to feel as if your children had burned to death for no obvious reason at all. The ceiling is screaming, every pore in your skin hurts, the view in the window hurts, the idea of getting off the couch to close the curtains hurts, thinking five minutes into the future makes you feel like youre coming apart at the atomic level. You need help when this happens. Nice to hear someone understands what having something short circuit in your head can be like. grantland/story/_/id/9939308/richie-incognito-jonathan-martin-miami-dolphins-bullying-scandal
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 05:48:31 +0000
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