the tv is on sports a lotttt in this household and that means when I get sick of watching sports my eyes go to the little ticker that goes across the bottom with "breaking" sports news.
just this week,
a 25 year old Kansas City Chiefs player killed his girlfriend and then committed suicide at the football stadium, leaving behind his 3 month old baby girl.
then on Saturday it was a Dallas Cowboy who has been charged with intoxicated manslaughter. He was driving drunk when his Mercedes crashed and his teammate was killed. His same teammate that he also played college football with.
Sometimes we get to watch non-sports related things and I get to see non-sports related news.
the story about the nurse that was at the receiving end of that prank phone call about Princess Kate and her pregnancy? She committed suicide. You guys. A radio station prank called the hospital and pretended to be the King and Queen and asked to talk to their granddaughter Kate. The mother of two nurse put them through to a triage nurse who gave them details.
Heck, while I was in the bathroom at the tennis club this weekend before our match started I heard a pre-teen girl (probably about ten) talking to her mom about how some other girls in her PE class told everything that they saw her the extra large tag on her t-shirt in her locker and they went and told all the boys.
break.my.heart.
it's so easy in this time of reality tv, athletes being paid INSANE amounts of money to throw around a ball, and when famous celebrities weddings cost more than I will make in my lifetime. (cough, cough Justin Timberlake + Jessica Biel. :) i get caught up in it too. Well that kicker for that football team deserves to be ridiculed, his ONLY job is to kick field goals and get paid millions of dollars. how dare he miss. and i also am not advocating drunk driving and being reckless. I think actually that is the problem. Too many of us think we are just too invincible.
i guess my heart is just sad. sad for the pranks that get taken just a smidge too far. sad for the young lives SO full of potential that end too short. Sad that is what our news has to be about.
i probably should have been nicer to that 12 year old girl from the locker room when she cut me in line for the water fountain. I guess I shouldn't be so envious of football players younger than me with bank accounts full to the tens of millions. we all have battles that we deal with, and I just wanna learn to approach everyone with love. i think the world really needs that right now.
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