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I should be proud because....

TheCatWoman

I'm often told that I should be proud of things like sporting achievements, but I hate sport and if it disapeared the only thing I'd notice was that my normal progames wern't being messed about because of it. It dosen't matter what sport is, mens, womens team or individual, I dont' care and I resent being told I should.

Can anyone give me a reason why I should care, because I really don't understand this national pride thing in sport, or much else to be honest.

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  • There is a great difference between collective pride and personal pride.

    Are there any things that you feel a collective pride (or a personal pride) for?

    Lonehare12 said:
    I love my city (Sheffield) but I hate what we have done to the world, our history is appalling.

    I couldn't agree more although I am thinking on a large scale - upwards from 'Great' Britain to humanity as a whole and our destruction of civilisations/nature etc etc.

    Your words reminded me of the song and video 'What I've Done?' by Linkin Park

    In particular the video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ

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  • There is a great difference between collective pride and personal pride.

    Are there any things that you feel a collective pride (or a personal pride) for?

    Lonehare12 said:
    I love my city (Sheffield) but I hate what we have done to the world, our history is appalling.

    I couldn't agree more although I am thinking on a large scale - upwards from 'Great' Britain to humanity as a whole and our destruction of civilisations/nature etc etc.

    Your words reminded me of the song and video 'What I've Done?' by Linkin Park

    In particular the video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ

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  • in reply to B

    People say there's no I in team, but there is a me if your mix the letters up a bit!

    I just don't do groups or teams, I dont' understand them and I always get things wrong and end up upsetting people and being excluded. I think being excluded is supposed to be a punishment, it used to bother me when I was a child, as it was just another thing I didn't understand, but I've not felt bothered by it at all since my teens.

    I don't really have a sense of pride or achievement either, if things go well I keep doing them, I they go badly I don't do them again and everything else I just muddle through with.  I never felt a sense of achievement when I finished my degree, I was just upset and angry that I could do more the next year, maybe because no one was ever proud of me and as far as I know still isn't, it something I've just learned to live without? It's one of those things other people have/do, like going on foreign holidays or racing cars, or something?

    I have more things that I find interesting than I have pride in, like England pretty much writting the sound track for the rennaisance. I love the landscape and the earth and rocks beneath our feet, but the things this country has done, or the things that it's done in my name or the names of my ancestors, no, nothing. 

    I think pride is a foreign concept to me, whether its individual or national. But no one's answered my question, why should I feel proud?

    'Sport is an excellent way to heal', it is? For me its more like rubbing sandpaper over a wound, who does it heal? I just see a load of fit people bullying others to be like them and ganging up on you when you politely say 'No thanks'