For anybody who doesn't know who Chris Bosh is, he was an NBA player up until two years ago. His 11-year NBA career came to an abrupt end couple years ago due to blood clots but recently I've been reading about him making a return to the court (yea, I'm a huge basketball fan [more of a Celtics fan than a basketball fan if you know what I mean]; about the only sport I watch after the demise of boxing).

Anyways, I find his recent comment on post-playing frustration interesting...

“It’s pretty much like cruising along, going 150 miles an hour in your Porsche — and then you fall into a hole,” Bosh says.

“You go from being with the guys all the time, in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then …show more content…
You don’t get as many phone calls. You don’t stay at the forefront of people’s minds. It’s natural, it’s life, you have to understand what’s happening, but I definitely see why the divorce rate is so high, and why players go …show more content…
This is one aspect of men's lives I've pondered for a while and upon doing so I've developed contempt for human praise and affection because their praise is never naked, it never comes to you whole and untangled, it always come with something; contingencies, always to get you to do something, to affect something in you, to get you to keep doing something, to get you to keep doing more, to keep you oblivious to its embedded manipulative nature. It's this conditional adoration that never fail to remind you that if you fuck up for one second or fails to remain the masterpiece they've painted you in the corner with you'd be dropped instantaneously. Their praise is to get you to keep being useful to everybody else other than yourself which, for men, the moment that praise, earned by everything external to them, disappears the fall is steep and devastatingly crushing. This is why men fall into the trap Bosh described