Robbed of my future

TalionTheWorstRanger · 2018-05-10T17:42:25+00:00

Your just finding out how shallow everyone really is. Everyone wanted to be around you when they thoughts you where going to be a big NBA player. I had to learn this at a very young age, it's given me PTSD because I've known this my entire life. So your waking up out of the matrix my friend. You had a red pill moment, against your will. Now I can't be specific to your situation. But fuck all of them. My family my entire life has been trying to get me to kill my self. Because I don't live up to there ideas. You now don't live up to there standard, and there ideas. Fuck em. Go your own way. Get your frame in order. Just fuck bitches don't look for validation from other people it'll only make things worse because you'll define yourself by them.

That's the hardest thing for me is to get validation from myself. And not others, others have been validating you.

Look you where doing what someone else wanted for you. Someone raised you to be a NBA player. I was raised to be abused, and used. Break free if the programming.

Chad1738 · 2018-05-10T18:08:31+00:00

Life didn’t fuck you over. Its just giving you and opportunity to see what you are made of and show you who people really are. You weren’t born to be in the NBA, your body wasn’t made for it clearly. Look at Isaiah Austin from Baylor university. He will still have a career in basketball but just not what he thought he was going to do. There are still plenty of opportunities to succeed in basketball and the game you love. Life is giving you an opportunity to show you aren’t a loser by giving you the option to a). Quit now and be a loser like you say or b). Persevere And prove to yourself you aren’t a loser by overcoming this obstacle.

chazthundergut · 2018-05-11T03:08:32+00:00

Good.

Life was never supposed to be easy. Life is suffering. It is a motherfucker, and no one gets out alive.

You got dealt an awesome hand. An awesome hand, and you probably took it for granted. But you got burned on the river, and now you're down here with the rest of us.

Friends? Family? Girlfriend? They turn their back on you?

Good.

You were born alone. You will die alone. And now you've had the harsh red pill of truth crammed down your throat.

But here's the thing. You can do something about it. You can crawl and scratch and scrape your way to your feet. You can pick up your heavy stone and carry it up the mountain. You can make a conscious decision to laugh at the tempest of life. Fuck the setbacks, fuck the bad news, fuck the shitty friends and family, and fuck your little whore girlfriend too. Fuck all of them.

Prove them wrong. Make it anyways. Find something else, some different direction, and fucking crush it. This is the defining moment of your life. You thought your battle was on the basketball court- that was never your battle.

This is your battle. This thing has been sitting at the end of high school since the very beginning, waiting for you. And now you're staring it in the eyes and you've got to decide whether or not to let it eat you.

You are a man. You are a fighter. Your ancestors carried the torch of manhood through thousands of years of ice age, famine, disease, and war. A thousand thousand generations of men kept that fire burning. They fought and starved and died, but they didn't let the fire go out. You are not descended from fearful men. You are the son of warriors.

And now you're holding the torch. Now it's your turn. Do you drown yourself with alcohol and self-pity? Do you surrender yourself to depression and despair? Do you stay on the ground, now that Life has tossed you on the ground and taken your legs from you? Do you give up and fucking kill yourself? Do you let the dragon eat you?

Or do you man up, pick up your spear, and ram it up the dragon's ass?

Up to you.

azwildcat74 · 2018-05-10T17:32:50+00:00

Quit wallowing in your bitch fest. You know what can also land you in a wheelchair? Walking across the street and getting hit by a car. Chase your passions and live a life that will not have you regretting 'what might have been'. Direct your energy to productive things and move the fuck on.

azwildcat74 · 2018-05-10T23:59:55+00:00

PS, how tf are you in a pub drinking if you're not of an age to have accepted scholarship offers? Numbers aren't adding up here.

DubbleFUPAwitCheez · 2018-05-10T20:48:40+00:00

Guess you'll have to get a real skill now. Programming is a good idea.

You may have had a great opportunity taken from you but when you fall from great heights you get great perspective on the way down. All those people associated with you because what your future was going to give you. You gained insight into the fact that to other people you are what you can do for them and that's why we preach doing for yourself first. P.s. "ending it all" is the pussy way out. You're literally saying you would rather die than act like a man.

bob13bob · 2018-05-11T03:14:36+00:00

Ur odds of becoming a successful nba player was very slim before your leg problem. How many players who actually make the NBA go bankrupt, most of them.

Pour that effort in to something that pays better and gives you more status for your whole life.

batfish55 · 2018-05-11T09:55:32+00:00

Sorry dude. Could be for the best though. Hear me out.

I don't know what your realistic chances were for going pro, but any sport, pro or not, is a limited-time offer. If your legs weren't giving out, you'd eventually get old, and slower, and fatter. And then you'd have to quit. And unless you got Kobe money, and saved and invested, you'd now be late 20s/early 30s, with little money and no job skills.

Now, fate has forced you to learn those job skills while you're still young.

It's gonna sting for a while, but eventually you'll come to accept it. You still won't like it, but you'll accept it. At least you're learning who your real friends are.

If you just can't get over it, maybe you can try to coach?

dazlgwade · 2018-05-10T21:09:05+00:00

This news did you a favor. I’m 18, 6’7, stud, was playing in nc so you know it was serious, ranked all that bullshit, but my story is a little different. I never LOVED basketball to begin with. I only played because I was tall and it was KIND OF fun. Made the decision to stop after this year (my senior year) because if I didn’t love it now, I wouldn’t survive in college.

Now, my friends are still around, they’re good dudes. So now that yours left, that’s good because you won’t have to deal with them doing something worse in the future. As for girls, I don’t think they know I quit but I still pull them. Think about how many of these bitches out here are with dudes who have nothing going for then at all. Your GF was a clout chaser. That or she got the wrong message and thinks your legs will break down even if you quit. Plus you shared your problems with a women, never do that, all possibilities.

As far as parents go. I haven’t told my dad or his side of the family because I don’t live with him. Even though, years ago he told me even if I wanted to read books for a career he’d support me (it was an exaggeration). I doubt it. I told my mom, she immediately asked me did I want to be a model after. Now I feel like a product. Like I can’t have a regular career and that she sees me as a mill ticket. Like where tf did that come from. But in the end, you’ll get over it. Time heals every wound my guy.

MOST IMPORTANTLY. This showed you everyone’s true colors and that’s a blessing. Act accordingly.

cobalt1728 · 2018-05-10T19:24:07+00:00

You need HGH and some Test. Sounds like chronic overtraining? Also to make it at an elite level in sports, doping is required.

Kommanderdude · 2018-05-11T01:22:38+00:00

It’s the pity party attitude driving everyone away. Did you get a second opinion? Plenty of docs have told high level athletes they could continue their sport. And plenty of doctors have been wrong and those same athletes went on to continue playing at a high level.

Title	Robbed of my future
Author	ThrowawayCantF
Upvotes	13
Comments	17
Date	May 10, 2018 5:26 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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