THE ATHLETES FAULT?

as a former pro athlete who for 20 years was trained to hurt people, how do I deprogram? How do you turn it off when you have been trained to inflict maximum damage to another human since the age of 6? How do you become normal when you were hardwired to hurt people? Nobody understands that athletes, even if they are not pros were involved in there particular sport probably since they were 5 years old. Is it any wonder that athletes turn up in the news for some violent act. The way we were taught to handle a stressful situation is with violence, how the fuck do you turn the switch to off, you don't. Football-boxing or any violent sport-you are trained to react without thinking-second nature- to just react. So after retirement and 20 years of doing the same thing, hurting people, what happens then? they let a trained killer on the street with no deprograming, somebody who reacts to certain situations the only way they know how, with violence. Not the athletes fault, but what do they do? Think about that the next time you read about an athlete in trouble in the newspaper.