Fan

The recent backlash on Tiger Woods (Golf player), making Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) god, suicides after the death of Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy (Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, India), apology by Michael Phelps and a few other incidents made me re-think what a fan is.

I do not have much knowledge about golf but I know the popularity Tiger had gained and as a result the game itself has been taken up seriously by many world wide. He had a huge success rate and was almost everytime the champion of his game. There was a huge fan following for this person. Suddenly the news comes out about his sexual affairs and then the so called fans take a huge backlash against the same person. The first place the people become a fan was for his game. His personal life is totally unrelated to others. I am neither agreeing with what Tiger did nor disagreeing but I strongly feel that what he does at personal level is his wish and not of concern to anyone else other than him alone. I also know that all the so called fans would definitely dream about having sex with multiple people, just that they dont have the opportunity as truly said in "Virginity (or monogamy) is not dignity, it is just lack of opportunity". You can do all mistakes, all dirty things, more than that dont do anything at all, lying lazy, just simply watching someone else play or do their job, calling yourself a fan of his or her and at the end reprimanding the same person, at some err of theirs. They are just humans as us and they are bound to do mistakes. Why does Tiger has to apologize to everyone in the front of the whole world. Just ask yourself do you apologize for something to whole world? Atlast they made him believe he has some kind of addiction and he need to go to rehab. Poor guy, I pity you Tiger. I can say that all the maniacs calling themselves as fans would be dreaming of doing thousands or millions of girls/guys, if they have a chance. He has been treated so inhumanly. Tiger-I hope you get your peace back soon and dont care about what these people say.

I have written about the double century and it's after affect making Sachin a god in my previous post. I would want to talk about god here. I am not familiar about the origin of the word "God" in english but the translation in hindi is "Bhagawan". The word Bhagawan means (or is derived from) "Bhagga raago bhagava, bhagga moho bhagava, bhagga dvesho bhagava". Bhagga means burnt completely, no residual remaining. Raag = craving, moh = ignorance, dvesh = aversion. So, this translates to one who has literally burnt craving, aversion and ignorance. One who does it is englightened and has experienced something beyond mind and matter, something eternal.
I am now puzzled with this word being associated with most people. I think Sachin being the gentleman he is would himself disagree he be called god. It's these people, with their most ignorant fanatic, irrational and irresponsible behavior make these up. I also doubt their honesty in calling themselves fans. Let one incident such as Tiger's happen and they will use their same talents (ignorance, irrationaliy, irresponsibility,etc.) to do all the demeanor to him.

Attempting suicide after the death of Y.S.R. by many so called fans, falls into the similar illogical behavior. I dont know whats the point he/she is trying to make by committing suicide. Go get the book "Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand" and re-think about your decision. If at all anything, you should be inspired by the person, if he has done so much good and implement a bit of it in your personal life, which will bring good to you and others rather than just burning yourself.

Similar to Tiger's, making Michael Phelps apologise in front of the television, for smoking dope is another act of crossing the border into his personal life. You're just a fan of his swimming. So just watch his swimming shows and learn a bit for yourself. If not earn 8 gold medals at the olympics just walk away from the television set and go do something worthwhile rather than just nagging at something always.

Media is also the major culprit in most of these situations. It's media guys who give a big hype about everything for their selfish, greedy needs to increase the TRP ratings. Somebody wins and make him a star next moment, if he/she does another thing then bring them down with much more hype. Actually this presentation creates more fans and also the repercussions from the fans.

At a personal front, I feel the celebrities are doing a best job of theirs. If we want ourselves to be called as a fan of their's just get the inspiration and do whatever you can do the best without involving much into their lives and bringing unhappiness to them for doing such a good job and having a bad fan like you.

To all the guys mentioned above and the other celebrities - sorry guys, I hope we learn to behave ourselves.