He's not a "bad ass", that's for sure. And he copped more media attention than some, but he didn't help himself at all there.
My point is simply that not everyone who has bi-polar, depression or anxiety chooses to or needs to "act out" - the condition is not an excuse for not thinking about the effect you have on others or yourself, or not facing up to your responsibilities. Hence the possibility that he was just a dickhead, rather than choosing to define him purely by his condition?
Everyone makes mistakes, regardless of their medical conditions. Tim made his, but the condition seems to get portrayed as an excuse, rather than the simple fact that failing to be responsible for his behaviours cost him his career.
You're right on the suicide rates front, so in that sense I guess that regardless of our opinion on Tim's footy potential, we can all be glad that Tim did break the conditions the club had imposed on him for his own (and the club's) good and brought things to a head in that way, rather than the sadder alternative.
We (MAN) are all unique, not one the same as the next. There is no mould that fashions ALL souls but many believe there is as can be witnessed by their belief systems/points of view. This is the basis of creating a HERD mentality which has led to all the suffering of MAN, past, present and future.
Tyranny, Totalitarianism, Dictatorships, Authoritarianism, Despotism, Stalinism, Absolutism, etc are examples of this terrible sickness of MANS brain. If you don't fit in..... YOUR OUT.
We should be honouring the uniqueness of MAN instead of trying to get men like Tim Smith to fit into the herd so that he can be ostracised, ridiculed, etc, while protecting the HERDS existence.
One thing is to use shame to help another deal with the harm they have caused and another is protecting the HERD at all cost by judging and ridiculing others who don't fit in.
I'd rather the shame than the existence of any HERD.
"Cast Not The First Stone"
Creating a "MAN" is more important than anything else because a MAN is conscious of Doing No Harm and lives by the virtues of love. Without MAN we have a world of hu-mans lost to love (a hu-man is a colour of MAN, a fallen MAN, a man unconscious of consciousness, --- hu ---- of air, of nothingness, of no substance of MAN, a hu-man is lost to love).
Boooooooooooo Casper
Virtues of love: nurture, care, support, encourage, inspire, empower, share, respect, give, create, guide, truth, honour, tolerance, acceptance, etc, etc. If we all put our energy/power of creation into these virtues of love how quickly we can transform everything going wrong in MANS world today. We don't need HERDS, we just need MAN loving/serving MAN.
