Cristiano Ronaldo sits with his head between his knees, hundreds of exhausting questions revolve in his mind, as he receives one blow after another.
Sometimes European clubs reject him, and sometimes he misses the Champions League, before he turns into a substitute player, then he is punished to train alone with the reserve team, and about that, millions of people mock him, and no one cares about the bitterness that he feels alone.
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The don raises his head and looks forward, he sees the picture is more blurry than ever, and he sees the end is approaching, unlike what he painted, he lost only the last challenge, but he feels that he lost everything, he is the man who used to look forward only, and does not care about what He may check in advance, because he is always hungry for more.
One last scene, Cristiano looks in his mirror, glimpses tears in his eyes, and cannot stop them, he finally realizes that he miscalculated himself as a machine that always bears pressure, for a moment he realized his need to cry and collapse as a human being, not as the best player in history and the best player for the last 20 years as He used to define himself.
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Between success and happiness
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The above was nothing but an imaginary scene for a man who throughout his career was accustomed to being acclaimed as a superhero with passion, has a constant hunger for more and never tires of training and sweating for that, likes to always put himself under pressure to move forward, defying all the haters and defeating them, before he He shouts in their faces his famous cry, celebrating their joining the list of his victims.
Perhaps this was a way to succeed, rather to go beyond its limits and reach a miraculous march at the level of achievements, numbers, and collective and individual titles, but on the other hand, did this make the Madeira missile reach happiness at the end of his journey with the ball?
Were these advantages really real at the human level, apart from the professional?
In fact, it appears that it was not.
Before the start of the 2023 season, Ronaldo met the famous Canadian psychiatrist Jordan Peterson, in a two-hour session, after the Don watched him videos and read a book to him, and was sure that he could help him during that period he was going through.
(6) Peterson did not disclose everything about the session, of course, given that it is a session that combines a doctor and a case, even if it is a case of one of the most famous personalities on the planet, but in the end it must maintain its privacy despite everyone’s curiosity to know what exactly happened with her .
Nevertheless, Peterson hinted in timid terms to Cristiano's suffering from depression due to the death of his infant son months ago, as well as to the difficulty of his current situation with football, which opens several prospects for questioning the situation that afflicts one of the best players in the history of the game with depression as he knocks on the door of his 38th year .
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autumn
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You may ask yourself what makes Ronaldo’s man suffer like this because of his inability to find a club that plays in the Champions League at his current age, the tournament in which he is the historical top scorer and most won as a player, or because he sat on the bench in some matches with Manchester United After reaching his 700th goal with clubs, what could be achieved more than these miraculous numbers if he played a starter or participated in the Champions League?
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In fact, the answer to that question is very easy, especially for Don lovers, which is simply that the man is always insatiable and always looking for more, as he has a victorious mentality, endless passion, and a forward-looking look no matter how many achievements he accumulates behind him.
There is also another answer that Ronaldo himself stated at the end of the film that documented his career and was produced in 2015;
Which is that he loves to always put himself under pressure, and at that moment when the pressure ends, he will announce the suspension of his shoes, and the end of his football career.
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Ronaldo and his fans always believe that there are people who are stronger than all of life, who can always be the best under any circumstances, and can win over everything, and on top of them comes their favorite star of course.
Therefore, the Don always promotes this theory, and its fans celebrate it, all of whom are confident that with every crisis he will come back stronger, silence everyone and announce his victory in a new chapter of the tale full of victories and the haters he conquers.
But it seems that Ronaldo and his fans did not calculate the day when the pressure will be greater than him, as he is - surprisingly - a human being like them, no matter how much he tries to promote because he is a non-stop machine.
In the end, he is a human being who has limits, even if he thinks otherwise, and is controlled by feelings that he thinks he can put aside and go on his way without being affected by what is happening around him.
But no matter how long it takes, a straw will come to break your back, precisely at the time when the body, age and the train of time betray you, because you are - again surprisingly - just a human being.
The fall of Ronaldo's theory in the West
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That moment of doubt was enough to bring down the theory that Ronaldo lived his life promoting, and as much as enjoying the whistles of boos and the attack of haters and the pressure that puts himself in his whirlpool to achieve his dreams and make an exceptional march, as much as his weapon turned against him, and no one else was harmed by him, and he was condemned to suffer Alone without pity at the end of his journey.
Without pity because no one has come to believe that Ronaldo is a human who can suffer from that theory that he himself promoted.
The moment of the fall is already incomprehensible because Cristiano does not fall, the lovers before the haters did not feel pity in its true meaning, as much as they put more pressure on his shoulders until he returns and shuts his mouths and wins as usual, Ronaldo must always win in someone's story, but in their story all.
This theory is able to provide more successful and unhappy humans, whose superiority and the miraculousness of their stories are commensurate with the size of their misery, and despite the unhappiness that appears at the end of the story, that model is celebrated and promoted every time even with its tragic end, whether for those who were able to complete the journey Before life turned against them, or those who fell since the first rounds, because they were not strong enough to withstand this harmful amount of psychological pressure.
Unfortunately, this problem does not concern Ronaldo alone, since it is much bigger than sports and football.
the specter of capitalism
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Here we need to transcend the boundaries of football, because after connecting the threads together, we discovered that Ronaldo’s story is derived from a principle that governs all life, an implicit law that strips people of their humanity, and forces them to run always non-stop until they fall to the ground, to find themselves required to rise again and repeat the matter In a vicious cycle that never ends.
Imagine that a man who earns £500,000 a week from football only, as well as his own investments, and his fortune exceeded a billion dollars, as well as being able to make millions only for the pictures he publishes through his personal account on the Instagram site, falls prey to the same thing that the employee who is supposed to He hardly makes a living.
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It is capitalism, my dear, that always promotes the model of the man who always works, and turns all his moments into potential opportunities to increase money, the one who does not recognize rest or the search for happiness and relaxation, but rather sets his sights on increasing success by "tying himself in a bartender" nor It never stops, as long as there is a chance to reap more.
The only difference is that Cristiano Ronaldo chose to enter the whirlpool himself, unlike the poor employee who forced it into it, and although the Don reaps a huge part of this money, his wealth did not prevent him from turning into a profit-making machine for institutions as well. His story makes him an irresistible advertising front, and the mere mention of his name In any context, it is sufficient to increase profits for everyone, so everyone benefits from the situation in which the Don is living, and it is in everyone's interest to continue like this to bring millions behind him, and he brings them with them, without regard for any other meanings of life.
Tired all of life, my friend, and this is not an invitation to lie on your bed so that you do not become miserable, but there is a hair between toil, striving and endurance, and between the constant pressure that steals life even if it gives you the ecstasy of success, even if it makes you a billionaire, he will still be able at any moment to bring you down ground, and it will continue to annihilate your soul over time without realizing it, it will break your back and for the long term, whether you are a simple employee struggling to survive, or you are Cristiano Ronaldo himself.
Therefore, you may need to stand in front of the mirror from time to time to look at your features and repeat: I am not a machine, I am a human, just a human!
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