If your involved in a sport for a very long time, it comes to a point where your brain gets a bit fried and you feel like taking a break from it. This has been experienced by just about any normal male who participated in athletics for a good portion of their lives (if not go exercise you couch potato!). It sucks quite frankly, but some of us choose to stick thru it and continue on…which is not necessarily a good thing.
You remember that Yoda quote from Stars Wars in which he tells Anakin Skywalker “fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering?” That pretty much applies in this situation. Let me tell you how. You fear leaving a sport or activity you love so much because it has become a part of you and you fear you wont have or be good at anything else. So you do not take a break and continue. You then get angry. Angry at the thing you love itself, angry at what it is doing to you or angry about how much time it takes away from you or something akin to that. Which ultimately leads you to suffer, if not in a physical sense a mental sense that you are just dragging your feet along through the motions.
A break is needed at times and this is why we see fighters such as Floyd Mayweather Jr. and others take extended breaks away from boxing. The sport takes a heavy burden on you and it can make you bitter and disillusioned with all the wacky stuff that happens in and out of the squared circle. This very thing could be possibly happening to one Andre Berto. Berto who has had a rough 2012 so far, has had to deal with the first loss of his career in 2011 to Victor Ortiz, being branded as over rated by the media soon after and then suffering a biceps injury that derailed his rematch with Ortiz until June 23.
In this video interview, Berto opens up about the pressures of boxing and admits that the politics and criticism from media has made the sweet science not as fun to him as it once was.
