lessons from tiger
admin April 10th, 2010
It seems that the media continues to have a frenzy around the life of Tiger Woods and his family which not only seems to be incredibly disrespectful of their privacy but counterproductive to his recovery. Whether or not he learns from his mistakes is besides the point, but whether or not America learns from recent celebrity examples remains to be seen.
What are the lessons to be learned? First off, the main point is that it really isn’t about the sex. Yes–the sexual choices were in exceptionally poor judgment, but it’s really not about the sex. It’s about a man (or millions of people who become sexually compulsive) dealing with their emptiness and looking for contact in all the wrong places. It’s about a lifetime of dormant broken-heartedness manifesting in these self-destructive ways on the world stage.
If one lesson can be taken from this international display of pain, I hope it will be compassion for one another. Whether this comes in small ways or larger ways, it’s an opportunity for knowledge and growth that can only come from such a public display of narcissism and woundedness.
