Friday, March 19, 2010

When a Person Re-Enters Too Early, they Burn Out

Tiger Woods is signed up to play in the April 5 Masters Tourney. Thanksgiving 2009 is when the lid came off in his life. He has confessed. He has been to rehab. He has done all the stuff he could do and money could buy. The problem is, the sore is still pretty raw. Easy to pick the scab. The one thing money and intentions can't buy is the healing of time.

Today one of his hooker girlfriends released transcripts of sex text messages Tiger sent. I looked at them briefly. Sorry you'll have to dig them up from the garbage yourself. I read a few and stopped. He's a sick puppy.

Yet he has intentions of returning to Golf April 5. I know the Tour is hurting. I saw it on Saturday Night Live so it must be true. That's not Tiger's problem. Life will never be the same.

Think how much better it would be if:
  • --He had announced that he was going to retreat from all spotlight for at least a year to restore his broken life and marriage.
  • --He had confessed every and all to his wife with the understanding that things will come out.
  • --He had refused all pressures to come back.

He needed to step back, and step down and spend needed time doing the needful things.

Now it all blows up again. Early re-entry results in burn out. Imagine if he had waited a year, to Spring of 2011. Marriage and family whole. Confessed sin. Light of Day. Rested. Complete.

And then the hooker releases the text messages (which his wife should have already known about).

Then what? Not this. Not like now.

It was too early. He needed to stay out for a while.

This is like a tragic Shakespeare play. No good ending.

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