"When Brazil's national soccer team lost to Germany on Tuesday in a 7-1 rout, it lost something much larger than a game."
Read it and felt that there is something intrinsically common with everyone on this planet. Irrespective of the countries, regions, religions,
"There wasn't even time to suffer," said Almir Leite Rodrigues, 55, a retired history professor, describing the sensation of seeing Germany rack up so many goals so quickly. He and his daughter began watching the game on the beach in Copacabana along with thousands of others before withdrawing to a bench on a seaside avenue to contemplate what had happened.
"Maybe I'll feel something tomorrow," he quietly said. "I am numb at the moment."
Reminding me of the PTSD, Survivor's Guilt, Bipolar Disorder and other stress disorders I studied in the writings of Hemingway. The context was US and the World War. It had left the whole psyche of the US Soldiers, their families, friends and anyone who felt for them, in an acute state of 'FALL". This downfall of strength-this epidemic of despair-disappointment had hit the US hard and we still find the stirs of that depressive decade.
What to think of the Brazil 'depression hangover'? Is it the one that we have witnessed in India in the Pre-IPL era? Or it is the one that can be identified with the the great American depression?
Thanks to the IPL-Cricket remains a religion-but the obsessions has turned into 'controlled-confused compassion' for the spectators. They watch, predict, even put their predictions into the betting rackets, they dance-merry-go for the IPL outing and still remain the 'Cricket Lovers'.
The bouncing back of Brazil-Football Lovers-is necessary and will certainly happen as one can not against the self-EGO.
People have already expressed their willingness to get out of this suffering. Somehow, I feel that this can become a great opportunity to balance-bring the catharsis-of Brazilian Team Fans.
The purification was required to happen and now they will again be back to support the team with refined minds and hearts for the game that puts the world on roll.
Football!
