Watched a TV news spot today about a baseball player who turned 100. It was weirdly sad. The reporters gushing about it and current players saying nice things, and gestures at “all the great stories he had to tell,” but not actually telling them. Like watching a museum unveiling.
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This dude (I know nothing about baseball so this is more generic musings) usatoday.com/story/sports/m
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People who get to the center-stage of history according to well-understood scripts based on exceptional skills are kinda tragic figures if they then exit with just stories and minor footnotes. Everybody celebrates them as symbols of the sacredness of the stage. Like pillars.
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The celebration of what you symbolize at the expense of the specifics of your story underlines the transient insignificance of what you did. Very Buddhist.
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