Hot take: I think the reporters who are continuously asking Olympic gold medalists about an off-handed comment in the locker room are a much bigger issue than the comment itself
I know everyone was clowning Kai for looking up words but please look these ones up so you stop overusing them incorrectly:
Triggered
Shill
Reaction
Context
Performative
Fake
For fun, research:
Sarcasm
Nuance
Critical Thinking
Imagine telling an Indiana native and former IU student you aren’t allowed to be happy that IU just won the natty because you don’t regularly watch college football.
TAKE YOUR JUDGEY 22 YEAR OLD CONTRARIAN HOLIER THAN THOU ASS SOMEWHERE ELSE WE ARE ALL SO SICK OF YOU.
It’s funny.
The other day I had a post typed up connecting my father’s death 4 weeks ago to why I understood what John Cena did by “letting go” on Saturday, and I didn’t hit publish because I felt people may think it was weird to compare death to a wrestling career.
Then Cena explained it, and it’s exactly the point.
People keep calling it “giving up.” And saying he went against his morals. He didn’t give up.
He fought. He struggled. And then the awareness hit, this is my last match, my last moment, and I’m not getting out of this choke. So he smiled and tapped out, not as surrender, but as acceptance. As peace.
That’s what broke me , because I’ve lived that moment outside of wrestling.
When my father was leaving, the entire family begged him, “Don’t go. Please don’t go.” But not me. I held his head, kissed his forehead, and I said, “Dad… we’ll be okay. If you have to go, if now is the time, it’s okay.” I released him from the burden of staying for us.
He passed seconds later.
Sometimes we don’t get to choose how a person goes, the timing, the circumstances, the way it looks from the outside. It’s not how we wanted it to go.
But sometimes, right at the end, something changes.
The fight stops being a fight.
The room gets quiet.
And the person who’s leaving finds a peace that doesn’t look like winning or losing at all. It just looks like being done and at peace with it.
That’s what that tap-out was.
Not defeat.
Closure.