Cheering Failure

14Jun/110

If I were to take a look at my Facebook newsfeed and I did not know who Lebron James was, I would likely come to the conclusion that he was some sort of terrible baby eating seal clubbing Arab dictator that America has now apprehended. Despite my absolute lack of basketball knowledge though, it is completely impossible to be American without knowing who the self-anointed "King" is.

The entire social media landscape is painted with Lebron jokes. It seems like the entire world is reveling in his failed quest for a championship. Jokes are popping up all over Facebook and Twitter and even the unlikeliest people at work are talking about how Lebron deserved this.

Whether or not he deserved to lose, it's interesting to see how much people are enjoying this. His greatest crime appears to be leaving the team he was drafted to and going to a new team.

How many of you out there have stayed at your first job right out of school for 7 years or more?

If I were to pull a completely made-up statistic out of my pocket it'd be something like 5% of you.

We need to see past his fame and money and see him for who he really is; a person.

A human being.

Somebody like you and I that also has a career to look out for.

It's unfortunate that he did not turn out to be the hero that everyone wanted him to be, but maybe we need to stop elevating people into these types of roles and just see them as a human being. Just look at what what's going on. We're taking pleasure in watching another man fail in his career, to the point that he's become a national joke.

Until the man does something really crazy like commit kitty genocide, I think we should just leave the guy alone.