Lessons on life No. 142
Over the years I have seen and read reports talking about the amount of rubbish we put in our C.V.'s to try and make ourselves seem uber - employable. The sort of candidate that a selector would chase half way round the world and offer you the other half to make you a member of their team. As a result potential candidates stend tie gild the Lilly a touch. All right mostly lie through their teeth and then plan the bullshit backtrack to cover their ass in an interview.
My conceit was to try and play up my leadership skills by talking about my cricketing life and experiences at the helm of several sides. Even I found my claims mildly preposterous but had constructed a narrative to try and back it up.
However, on Friday night I watched a documentary about the ex England Rugby Star "Lawrence" Dallaglio. A monumental personality in the last 15 years of English Rugby. Not just in character but he really was built like a monumental slab of West London rock! Which is generally a type of clay. Got to go a long way down to find any bedrock in that city. Which is probably why it is sinking. With the weight of it's hype and bullshit!
I digress.
Mr Dallaglio. Here is a case in point, evidence that sport CAN change the way we are and forge a path of success.
The story starts here :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchioness_disaster
Lawrence lost his older sister in this disaster. It is often held up as the spur he used to get up and go and concentrate on his Rugby - and to what effect!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8335552/Lawrence-Dallaglios-guilt-at-using-sisters-death-to-improve-his-game.html
It is worthy of note that the newspaper that broke the story of his connection with drugs is now defunct having almost single handedly caused all the problems that were the focus of the Leveson inquiry and as a result may end in curbs on the very freedom of the press.
In my opinion what goes around comes around. Where as Lawrence Dallaglio has emerged as a true sporting hero and example for others to follow the cheap and shoddy journalism of the News Of The World has been consigned to the rubbish bin of history. May News International soon follow suit. Rupert Murdoch became the Establishment he so despised when he entered the newspaper world of London in the '60's.
I digress yet again.
My point is that sport does have parallels with real life. Unfortunately you have to have finished playing to see the truth in that. Only when you can look back on it's entirety do you see of that which I speak.
Lawrence's Dad summed it up (lovely man by the way - I met him just as Lawrence was getting famous, a very proud Dad already) when he said on the TV show "It was all over so quickly"
Yes dear readers! Make the most of your time because it will be over before you know it. Above all else Sport teaches us to live in the moment but all the while planning for the future.
As my Dad (a lovely man too by the way) used to say "Live today as though it was your last but plan secretly for tomorrow"
Here is a short video courtesy of Youtube that demonstrates Lorenzo "Lawrence" Dallaglio's extreme awesomeness. Actually it doesn't go half way near explaing that but the try where he carries half the Welsh team with him over the line goes some way to sum him up. Scoring tries wasn't his only trick though. Being bigger and stronger than the opposition was.
I digress.
Mr Dallaglio. Here is a case in point, evidence that sport CAN change the way we are and forge a path of success.
The story starts here :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchioness_disaster
Lawrence lost his older sister in this disaster. It is often held up as the spur he used to get up and go and concentrate on his Rugby - and to what effect!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8335552/Lawrence-Dallaglios-guilt-at-using-sisters-death-to-improve-his-game.html
It is worthy of note that the newspaper that broke the story of his connection with drugs is now defunct having almost single handedly caused all the problems that were the focus of the Leveson inquiry and as a result may end in curbs on the very freedom of the press.
In my opinion what goes around comes around. Where as Lawrence Dallaglio has emerged as a true sporting hero and example for others to follow the cheap and shoddy journalism of the News Of The World has been consigned to the rubbish bin of history. May News International soon follow suit. Rupert Murdoch became the Establishment he so despised when he entered the newspaper world of London in the '60's.
I digress yet again.
My point is that sport does have parallels with real life. Unfortunately you have to have finished playing to see the truth in that. Only when you can look back on it's entirety do you see of that which I speak.
Lawrence's Dad summed it up (lovely man by the way - I met him just as Lawrence was getting famous, a very proud Dad already) when he said on the TV show "It was all over so quickly"
Yes dear readers! Make the most of your time because it will be over before you know it. Above all else Sport teaches us to live in the moment but all the while planning for the future.
As my Dad (a lovely man too by the way) used to say "Live today as though it was your last but plan secretly for tomorrow"
Here is a short video courtesy of Youtube that demonstrates Lorenzo "Lawrence" Dallaglio's extreme awesomeness. Actually it doesn't go half way near explaing that but the try where he carries half the Welsh team with him over the line goes some way to sum him up. Scoring tries wasn't his only trick though. Being bigger and stronger than the opposition was.
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