"The NFL bubble is well formed. It keeps almost everything out: everything but the big stuff. When tragedy intrudes no one knows what to do. We are ill-prepared for life. We don't know how to handle our emotions.
Yes, but Nathan, darling, that isn't an American football problem.
You don't think?
Certainly not. It's the same thing in my life. Everyone is always so distracted, simply cannot be bothered. And when something happens, or someone is honest for once, or someone shows a moment of vulnerability, they're punished for it.
Yes! Because people see it as a weakness that they're trying to convince themselves they don't have, so they suppress it themselves by rejecting it in others. But where does it go? It goes somewhere, right?
(Andy has a look on his face. Then he speaks with his thick Scottish accent). Into our dungeons.....where it rots.
(Lucy agrees with him). Yes, into the dungeons, with the rest of our real emotions. Our emotions are the only things that we truly have, that are truly ours, and we are taught to reject them.
Damn. You're right. So what do we choose instead?
Darling. Pointy balls, of course."
From "Slow Getting Up", by Nate Jackson
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