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Ted Williams
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So_Long_Love
Red Whacker is hot!!
Has he drank yet? I think it was a truly remarkable story. Even the part about his 7 children and ex-wife.
He was sober for 2 years and still homeless and holding a sign, hoping for a chance, when that chance came. In one week he was a sensation and everyone knew his story.
Tell me that is not overwhelming.
I hope the best for him. He will have a long line of restitutions to make even with his fame. People may forgive him, some will not forget.
Some are jealous of the fact that this has happened for him and other homeless people are overlooked. Perhaps that will be part of his restitution, he will help those that were like him.
He seemed to have a genuine sense of gratitude. Oh and his momma is one tough cookie!
He was sober for 2 years and still homeless and holding a sign, hoping for a chance, when that chance came. In one week he was a sensation and everyone knew his story.
Tell me that is not overwhelming.
I hope the best for him. He will have a long line of restitutions to make even with his fame. People may forgive him, some will not forget.
Some are jealous of the fact that this has happened for him and other homeless people are overlooked. Perhaps that will be part of his restitution, he will help those that were like him.
He seemed to have a genuine sense of gratitude. Oh and his momma is one tough cookie!
So_Long_Love
Red Whacker is hot!!
Caitriona
Something Wicked
I smell a "movie of the Week" already in the works. The fact that he hit the bottle again, had a fight with his daughter [loud enough for people to call the police] and is on his way to rehab courtesy of Dr. Phil spells movie/book to me. Maybe Ted Williams will self-destruct, but someone is going to make money off his story. Just wait.
Gotta love an all American Rags to Riches back of rags story. Rich people will get richer and he'll, well he hasn't won the battle with his demons and maybe he never will.
Sorry to be so cynical, it is a great story of redemption, but life seldom has a happy ending in a story like this.
Caitriona
Something Wicked
I like to think we have more control over our lives, but the truth is "there but for fortune [and God]" go any of us.
Imagine. You make choices in your life that lead you to where Ted Williams found himself. Then you are magically rescued. In a story, that would signal the beginning of a brand new life. But in reality, now he has the entire nation watching him face all of his demons. The rescue is daunting enough, but add in the public scrutiny. First the public will pray for him and hope for the best, but if he lets them down, they will devour him.
I feel for him. I really do.
Mirah
I love you
I feel for him as well. There were so many other things I could have said after reading about the recent events today.
Part of me is upset at stations for just picking this guy up and throwing him on the air, just to hear his wonderful voice. It was almost hilariuos to me, they are offering him all of these things and he just kept saying, "I just want a house"
I kind of felt there was something amiss, that is why I said what I did. It could be me, it could be any one of us, just as you said.
And then on one hand I understand where his mom is coming from, and the disapointment she has felt over the years, but jesus, sometimes people need a little fucking encouragement. Maybe she and the family are spent.
Plus they are old school, she kept saying how embarresed she was. She is probably more embarresed now.
eloisel
Forever Empress E
I agree with the "there but for the grace of God go I." Some of us make better choices because we had better choices to choose from or because we were raised better equipped to handle fame, fortune, adversity, and forces that can alter the paths of our lives.
I think that man has a hard enough time recovering from the trauma of being an addict and homeless and living the way he has been living for quite awhile. Now he is having to do it as TV fodder.
Yeah, that is the breaks. He has some good opportunities there too - rehab, good job, he was given a house, money, fame again. Looks like he was given some dental work (which is expensive) and a good clean up of his body and given clothes to make him presentable for TV.
I hope he is able to withstand this new and enormous pressure on him and can take advantage of these opportunities to better his and his family's lives and can carry the goodness into his future.
I know if someone were to say to me they would give me tons of money if I would let the nation scrutinize my past, present and future until they lost interest in me, I would be afraid to accept.
I think that man has a hard enough time recovering from the trauma of being an addict and homeless and living the way he has been living for quite awhile. Now he is having to do it as TV fodder.
Yeah, that is the breaks. He has some good opportunities there too - rehab, good job, he was given a house, money, fame again. Looks like he was given some dental work (which is expensive) and a good clean up of his body and given clothes to make him presentable for TV.
I hope he is able to withstand this new and enormous pressure on him and can take advantage of these opportunities to better his and his family's lives and can carry the goodness into his future.
I know if someone were to say to me they would give me tons of money if I would let the nation scrutinize my past, present and future until they lost interest in me, I would be afraid to accept.
Consumer
Elder Statesman
A series of "lucky" things:
Grow up in a small town with 7 siblings (and my Mother's 4th grade class) = Any sort of drug FAIL due to spies.
Join the Cost Guard = Any sort of drug FAIL due to profession.
Get out of CG, into strange and wild women = any sort of drug FAIL because I've got better things to do.
Get married to someone who doesn't obsess over drugs (she got her endorphins from dance) = Further drug FAIL.
By this time in my life, I have my habits. I'm unlikely to pick up a new, destructive one.
end result: no chemical vices. Very occasional alcohol use that I could honestly give up without drama as I only drink a few times a year anyway. No cigs. No other stuff.
I DO have an addictive personality in some respects. I could be a "Ted" or millions of other people who struggle. I. Got. Lucky. It was not an act of some "higher" morality or anything else. It's just how my life went.
My mind works differently. I deal with stress and depression differently. I'd like to think "better", but really that's subjective. I don't run to a drug. I run into my own mind, or I write, or I try to find a woman who might need me. My "drugs".
We all have them. Even the Meditating Saint on the mountain-top has them.
Our voice, or our beauty, or every other "gift" only helps shape us toward our vices. The beautiful have it easier in some ways, but run the danger of objectification and vanity/weak ego. The talented run the danger of obsession. The poor and the rich alike find themselves trapped by circumstance. Ted had a good career, enabling him to find his vices and indulge them.
I believe it is a part of the human condition.
Grow up in a small town with 7 siblings (and my Mother's 4th grade class) = Any sort of drug FAIL due to spies.
Join the Cost Guard = Any sort of drug FAIL due to profession.
Get out of CG, into strange and wild women = any sort of drug FAIL because I've got better things to do.
Get married to someone who doesn't obsess over drugs (she got her endorphins from dance) = Further drug FAIL.
By this time in my life, I have my habits. I'm unlikely to pick up a new, destructive one.
end result: no chemical vices. Very occasional alcohol use that I could honestly give up without drama as I only drink a few times a year anyway. No cigs. No other stuff.
I DO have an addictive personality in some respects. I could be a "Ted" or millions of other people who struggle. I. Got. Lucky. It was not an act of some "higher" morality or anything else. It's just how my life went.
My mind works differently. I deal with stress and depression differently. I'd like to think "better", but really that's subjective. I don't run to a drug. I run into my own mind, or I write, or I try to find a woman who might need me. My "drugs".
We all have them. Even the Meditating Saint on the mountain-top has them.
Our voice, or our beauty, or every other "gift" only helps shape us toward our vices. The beautiful have it easier in some ways, but run the danger of objectification and vanity/weak ego. The talented run the danger of obsession. The poor and the rich alike find themselves trapped by circumstance. Ted had a good career, enabling him to find his vices and indulge them.
I believe it is a part of the human condition.
Mirah
I love you
Mirah, I love how you feel about things. You use your emotions to try and understand. I like that.
And why do I feel like I am 3 now? LOL
Thanks Caitriona! I love the way you use your words, you have such a nice vocabulary.
Just razzin ya.
Actually even tho I know you are not a Dom, whenever I think about you, I still think about us being on a stage and you with a whip and me at your feet.
But that is for a different thread. XOXO