Posted by Long Hair In Albany (other posts) on February 16, 2014 at 06:52:43 Previous Next
In Reply to: if you have a violin... posted by Jarvis on February 16, 2014 at 04:08:18:
: 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.