Monday

[louiselux]

Snow! Snow! It is the end times! All public transport in the south of England has ceased under the burden of five centimetres of cursed snow!

Not that I am complaining. It's pretty and I get to stay at home and work.

I watched the second episode of Being Human last night - it's still not completely lame and I'm enjoying it a lot. Catch it if you can.

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I'm still not over the tennis dramas of yesterday, not really. It keeps ringing around my head and I keep thinking about Roger - there is a person with so many expectations heaped on him, so many that I feel like his life is all bent out of shape from the vast pressure of them. Part of the joy of watching someone achieve at the highest level is that they are making a rare and almost impossible dream come true for themselves and for everyone watching. Watching them fail to do that is-- well, it is heartbreaking.

I wish I could stop thinking about this. I don't know why I care so much, but I do. It's only tennis, right?

Comments

[kispexi2.livejournal.com]

I wish I could stop thinking about this. I don't know why I care so much, but I do. It's only tennis, right?

Like all OTPs, it touches something that's important to you, is my guess. Something about his life/personality reflects something of yours and something about your hopes for him fulfil some of yours - if only in fantasy.

[frogglesthefrog.livejournal.com]

It's only tennis but it hurts so much. There's just so much pressure on him now, and I just hope and pray that he can make it through, be the strong person we know he is.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I watched the last half of the match and felt awful for him. I hate seeing someone who's been built up to appear "perfect" fail; he has so much to live up to, that he's bound to fall short at times, and it's somehow really shocking when it happens.

The interaction between the two of them is amazing, isn't it? It was interesting how the commentators call them "Rafa" and "Federer" - regardless of who wins, Roger's earned tat bit extra respect!

[del-naja.livejournal.com]

Yeah ! O_o I saw images from London on our TV news during my lunch break. It's very rare for you in UK to have snow, now ? And there are some centimeters too. We have snow too on the North of the France. Not in Lyon thankfully !

Arf, me too I can't get over all what happenned yesterday... And I saw on Fedal_Slash that someone posted an article form L'Equipe, I'm going to buy it if there is still one available, and try to scan and post pics if there's some.

Come on, you're going to get well I hope, hugs, hugs,hugs ^^

[adorerdollylux.livejournal.com]

my heart goes out to roger. it's not only tennis, no no. it's their lives, and it's alright if that means something to us. <3

[aramley.livejournal.com]

I think you've articulated beautifully here something that I've been struggling to, why seeing Roger lose is so much more painful than I was expecting - because his achievements are so great, that any failure seems so much worse by comparison. It is only tennis, but that doesn't stop it hurting.

[devikun.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh! I'm not alone! I've been thinking about it too! Maybe too much? It kind of feels like when a friend gets hurt or fails at something. I don't know, maybe he's just got that air about him - that'd be easy to like him and care about him. At least his 'on air' personality makes it seem that way.

And so naturally I kind of worry and want to comfort like I would a friend, except I don't actually know him and never will! Is that weird? It is, isn't it. I feel like a stalker. But I'm drawing a line at sending cards saying "Thinking of you", and "Hang in there"... Really.

[perseid.livejournal.com]

Very well said. I am not a tennis fan at all, but even that match and its outcome destroyed me on some levels.