I literally did both? I still hold records at my school but also would spend all of my free time at home in a computer. Sports by itself is not going to change what you do in your free time at home
You can change things you dont like about your life as an adult. Not everything of course we still have to pay rent and eat and shit (on the landlords doorstep). But if you were a weird teenager you dont have to be a weird adult. You can go to the gym and therapy and get a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a gundam.
I think I understand a little. Like the muscle memory would’ve already been instilled and gains already made, knowledge already had. I didn’t do sports besides recess or p.e. but that was only because I never had transportation (and had a mother who was struggling to deal with it all and her traumas). Would’ve been great. Now my gains are only for the swoletariat.
I imagine having mainstream hobbies and interests would make me fit in more even if it’s just an illusion.
Considering that I’m abnormal, depressed, lazy, alone, and hate everything and everyone, I don’t see how I’m any less evil.
Sports parents can be pretty abusive in how they make young children devote hours of their life to a sport that their parent has decided they should do.
My own parents were strict about my technology usage and I got my consoles taken away from me if I spent too much time on them. Most of my free time was spent reading, watching movies, and playing with action figures.
Sports parents can be pretty abusive in how they make young children devote hours of their life to a sport that their parent has decided they should do.
Yea, but introducing kids to sports ata young age also get them good at it. Wish my parents actually encouraged and forced me to do it, because I actually loved sports.
encouraged and forced me to do it
These are two different words you cant put an and between them like they mean the same thing. There’s a huge difference between providing sports as an option and “forcing” a kid.
Like if you had been forced the chances the end result would have been you loving them would have been slim.
You can only do so much. I was taking guitar lessons at age 4, and loving them, until my mom (who was also taking lessons with the same teacher) got frustrated, broke her guitar on the sidewalk and never took me back for music lessons.
Could I have ended up with a skill I kept as an adult, maybe? Speculating on what could have been isn’t too productive at this point.
Lol my girlfriend is still dealing with the trauma, mental and physical, of being forced to play football don’t romanticize that.
ETA: Also as an uncordinated autistic kid anytime I was “force to play sports” my teammate would put me through some of the worst bullying and ostracization I ever experienced. You dont actually want this.
I would think OP is talking more about playing in people’s backyards for fun, not the proto fascist hellscape of school sports
Thats certainly not the first thing I think of when I hear the team “forced into sports”. That term definitely evokes being forced into little league or whatever. and RyanGosling hasn’t really clarified elsewise.
I played in my backyard pretty much on my own as a kid. But I was doing like, imagination games, not really “sports”. Like tech wasnt as ubiquitous then and I definitly stopped doing that after like, middle school. But I think there’s a difference between “I wish my screentime had been limited” and "I wish i had been forced into sports rhetorically.
I was forced to play sports and hated it
I was forced to play sports and got some injuries that did lasting damage, all to placate a chud family.
Would not recommend forcing kids to play sports, particularly ones with expected contact injuries.
The arts should be a fine alternative.
no injuries but my parents used to make me go out and throw baseballs at me
they thought the computer was useless. i was writing code at like 12 and would have to delete it because it was “breaking the computer”
i was too big and masc bodied to be allowed to do that. jokes on them i hated all things IT related when i tried to go to college for it
Was also forced into it (baseball, such a boring sport only topped by golf) and didn’t like it, however I got into playing ice hockey as an adult and I wished so much that I had started playing as a kid cause it’s so fucking fun.
E: not trying to advocate for forcing kids into a sport here, more what I was going for was that getting into a sport of your own volition as an adult is way better for being engaged (fuck I would have loved to compete in hockey though)
i am proud to have been raised as a poster, personally
Dad would often wake me and my little brother up at 5:15 am, still drunk from the night before, to go to posting practice. I was 7 years old and shivering because we lived in North Dakota and my dad hated keeping the heat on at night. My routine was to stand on top of the central air vents, after he would mercifully turn the heat back on, in my long johns while eating a heaping bowl of Frosted Flakes.
At 5:40 am he would direct me to the basement where our computers were located. I say computers but it was more like a server farm. We were posters. My dad had dreams of us going pro so he made sure we had the best equipment and he bribed the local Poster Association to get us in to Triple A Posting League. After a short warm up we would begin our serious posting at 6 am. Obviously we would check Something Awful for the latest news from the posting trenches but my favorite place to go ham was the news message boards. I’d be posting about how good Dick Cheney’s shot is one second and quickly pivot to how lame Al Gore was for believing in things.
But this was my downfall. This is why I was never destined for the pros. My beliefs weren’t sincere. I was nothing more than a troll. I was never able to capture the sickness of the world in a pithy and cynical yet humorous quip. That’s what separates the pros from the amateurs in Posting.
