I hear that alot. He's young, he's got money, fame, women, anything he could want. What's he got to be depressed about?
But I think in that lies the answer.
When your in an environment like that, you really lose touch with a sense of normality. When that happens I think you have a tendency of losing sight with what's actually important.
We can only grade how serious problems are based on our own personal experience. But what happens when you really don't go through any of the real issues that face most people?
Well your sense of what's a problem gets thrown completely out of whack.
The only thing Michael Beasley has ever had to worry about his whole life is basketball. At every level of play until now he's been the best, but now he's not the best anymore.
It's hard to handle failure even in the smallest sense if you've never experienced it.
You and I really can't relate to what Michael Beasley is going through right now.
You can say well well it's BS that he's depressed when he really has nothing to be depressed about, and you may be right to a certain extent, but athletes today are just so detached from what most people experience it's just beyond most people's comprehension of what he's going through.
That's why most athletes really can't function in normal society. They were never allowed to grow up. As long as they were good at their sport virtually whatever they did was either okay or could be forgiven. They're were no real consequences to face whenever they did something wrong.
I don't blame the athletes for that. I just think we as a society have just placed so much emphasis on sports in general that people believe that the outcome of a game actually means something, and it might to a degree, but in the grand scheme of things sports are meaningless.
It's a form of entertainment that is there to brighten your day. Don't think of it as anything more.
