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yellowdogsaturday) wrote2011-09-16 03:33 pm
yellowdogsaturday) wrote2011-09-16 03:33 pm
The Rainbow Sucks
Through a gift, came profession for Ken Dryden, a famous goalie having a life of celebrity, opened up a door that could never be closed. Fame carried its everyday burden. Being spoken about, turning heads, signing autographs and countless gifts of admirations were great, but flooded his daily life. The media made it easier for him to be famous off the ice. Just because he was an excellent goalie it didn’t mean that he was some kind of special human being without fault (which was often portrayed) he struggled and lived life just like the rest of us. He is not brighter, kinder, or more capable of excelling at everything he did because he was a good goalie, the aura of being successful and famous often distorted the reality of who he really is. This could be seen as a confession about how the hockey game opened a field of manipulating the truth with a media image. This is the real “Ken Dryden”.
In his younger days of being 23, he believed that he had to become all of the things the media portrayed him to be, this being problematic because it’s incredibly unrealistic. Growing older, growing past all the constructs of him, gaining a larger sense of reality, Dryden mentions that his accomplishments are somewhat similar to the ones that we’ve overcome.
When “The Game” was published he was 36, he had finished a degree in law, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. A veteran of being in the limelight, the glamour of being famous had obviously worn off and in this book he really displays a very honest realism of how the game was not only on the ice. “… Want to be an antique collector? Collect an antique…tell a journalist, sound enthusiastic, and, above all, play well. Then stand back and watch what happens… Presto, it’s part of your standard bio. And your image.”
Part of the game was not only hockey but also playing a part in the media, whether he liked it or not. When he grew and could look past all the hype, a realization of many important things stuck out more than they did before. Such as: We’re not super beings; we’re all people living life as it comes and the average human beings are under looked and less appreciated when they shouldn’t be.
The demographic of people who would grasp this are the older hockey fans, people with a strong political interests who are curious about Dryden’s past and college/university students who are instructed to. Dryden tells us that having a professional career in hockey requires not only playing on the ice, but also playing the roll that is given to him; being a person for the people, which was not always necessarily the truth.
Chasing the rainbow will do you no good because it’s chasing something that cannot be caught. And not get upset because every human being is disappointingly normal despite the fame. The purpose of writing this is that there are added pressures of being a professional athlete during the game and off, coping with the intense commands of media attention cause strife in discovering who you actually are, not through the camera’s eye.
In his younger days of being 23, he believed that he had to become all of the things the media portrayed him to be, this being problematic because it’s incredibly unrealistic. Growing older, growing past all the constructs of him, gaining a larger sense of reality, Dryden mentions that his accomplishments are somewhat similar to the ones that we’ve overcome.
When “The Game” was published he was 36, he had finished a degree in law, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. A veteran of being in the limelight, the glamour of being famous had obviously worn off and in this book he really displays a very honest realism of how the game was not only on the ice. “… Want to be an antique collector? Collect an antique…tell a journalist, sound enthusiastic, and, above all, play well. Then stand back and watch what happens… Presto, it’s part of your standard bio. And your image.”
Part of the game was not only hockey but also playing a part in the media, whether he liked it or not. When he grew and could look past all the hype, a realization of many important things stuck out more than they did before. Such as: We’re not super beings; we’re all people living life as it comes and the average human beings are under looked and less appreciated when they shouldn’t be.
The demographic of people who would grasp this are the older hockey fans, people with a strong political interests who are curious about Dryden’s past and college/university students who are instructed to. Dryden tells us that having a professional career in hockey requires not only playing on the ice, but also playing the roll that is given to him; being a person for the people, which was not always necessarily the truth.
Chasing the rainbow will do you no good because it’s chasing something that cannot be caught. And not get upset because every human being is disappointingly normal despite the fame. The purpose of writing this is that there are added pressures of being a professional athlete during the game and off, coping with the intense commands of media attention cause strife in discovering who you actually are, not through the camera’s eye.
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