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Saw this re-posted a few times on twitter. The original author is a man named Chris Field.. It really struck me and I thought it was really well written:
He had it all. Everything. Until he didn’t. And the fall was not a small one. It was documented everywhere. All his sins, and there were plenty, for the world to see. Whispers, finger pointing, head shaking, headlines. Slowly, with almost nobody watching, he started coming back
12:02 PM - 14 Apr 2019
He had it all. Everything. Until he didn’t. And the fall was not a small one. It was documented everywhere. All his sins, and there were plenty, for the world to see. Whispers, finger pointing, head shaking, headlines. Slowly, with almost nobody watching, he started coming back
12:02 PM - 14 Apr 2019
- An injury almost ended the comeback before it even started. He persevered through that as well. Today, with the world watching, he does it. A generation who years ago sat with their dads watching Tiger win sat with their own kids now and said, “watch this.”
A generation inspired to become and excel at golf by watching him on TV as kids watched one more time today as he passed them on the leader board. His children who watched it all unfold over the last decade with their own parts in the story are waiting for him just off the 18th.
The mom who watched her son have it all, and then lose it all, is waiting too. She never left, by the way. Mommas almost never do. The story isn’t perfect. They never are. We never are. But it’s a heck of a good one.
Watch closely kids. Being great is one thing. Being great after falling out of grace takes twice as much work and ten times as much courage. That’s the good stuff in life. That’s why a bunch of old dudes got tears in their eyes today.