Post a followup to the message posted by "Long Hair In Albany" with the subject of "Re: if you have a violin...":
Enter Your Response Here:(Please, to save bandwidth, delete the part of the other person's text that does not need to be included for context.) : : It's because a tree is dead. : : Violins are not living things, therefore the metaphor is wrong. : : Also, if you can find the footrace between Johnny Knoxville and Travis Pastrana then go watch it. I wasn't able to find the video, but that's a somewhat decent exhibit of what extreme sports can do to your body. It's a better comparison than the violin thing, anyway. : An even better example would be a football game any given week : during the season. It only takes a split second for : a football player to have his season end with a torn ACL and MCL. : Or there is Darly Stingley who sustained any injury that put him : in wheelchair for the rest of his life. : Every sport has injuries and ultimately skiing/snowboarding/etc. : can result in serious injuries. : A violin you can carefully remove it from it's case, : carefully play it, carefully put it back in it's case : and carefully return it to safe keeping. : In skiing/snowboarding/etc. you're coming moving at high : rates of speed, and between falls/crashing into trees/etc. : you can sustain serious injuries. You can be very careful : with a violin, you can't always be careful skiing/snowboarding : etc. (Especially in the heat of competition when you're : main ob ject is to win and you're not careful to avoid injuries.) : if you're a football player and huring badly you're still going : to play in the Super Bowl since you may never make it to the big game again in your career. : The same goes for the olympics. You're going to be determined to win and you're going to not be concerned about injuries : since you may never make it back to the olympics. : Ultimately a violin can be replaced. It may not be replaced with : a 300 year old violin but it can be replaced. That is now true with the human body. They can replace knees, but it takes upwards of years to recover from a injureis like torn ACLs or MCLs. And ultimately every time you set foot on the fiels you'll : be aware that you could have another devastating injury. And it is that caution/awareness/etc. that may lead to you being cut from the team and being replaced by a hungry rookie who has no fear of injury.
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