A flash of excitement, the World Cup has all ended.
For many people, they stay at home to watch the game at the opening, and they stay at home to watch the game at the closing. Staying at home will feel like you lack reference objects and you cannot feel the flow of time. In fact, Argentina has been between losing and winning.
Wow, they are so happy! /unsplash
I am different. During the entire World Cup, I have never seen a single game, and I have not even watched the wonderful moments of the edited short videos. So, my timeline is a little different. I guess there are many people like me.
Many friends questioned me, how can I not watch football as a boy?
I don’t understand a little. As a boy, why do you have to watch football?
The World Cup and masculinity
There is really a little relationship between football and masculinity.
Look, the confrontation and confrontation on the field, every sprint, every step, speeding and shouting, there is a situation where the two armies face off. There is no doubt that football is a game of strategy and strength, and the release of hormones. These words are very consistent with the stereotype of men . This stereotype is even more prominent when putting
in the World Cup. This sentiment reached its peak when Croatia won Brazil. In this World Cup, the little Croatia actually defeated Brazil, the traditional football powerhouse. How can it not be exciting?
In order to describe how strong the Croatian goalkeeper is, my friend showed me this picture, and then I asked, "So he will also travel through time and space, right?"
was excited, very excited. I didn't watch the game, but through the penetrating shouts from the neighbor's next door and the degree of the screen flooding of my friends, I can already know the excitement and significance of that game.
As for the competition itself, I can't appreciate it. Because to understand the profound terms such as hat tricks, offsides, and penalty kicks, and to distinguish which player belongs to which team, their name, and the results they have achieved in their country... it is too difficult.
The difficulty is like a person who has never watched a Marvel movie, and now let him make up for it from scratch; or a person who has never watched " Three-Body " asks him how ugly the animated version of "Three-Body" is; or a person who has never listened to classical music asks him which song is now from Chopin .
I think this is a professional problem, and for me, it is beyond the scope. Of course, football is definitely an expression of masculinity. It is definitely not gentle, but not all men can resonate with this masculinity, and masculinity does not belong to men.
Football is a professional, but I didn’t choose this “professional”. /pexels
Otherwise, how do you evaluate the muscles displayed by women in bodybuilding competitions, female soldiers on the battlefield, and female athletes in boxing? In my opinion, these are masculinity. Masculinity is a neutral concept and does not belong to gender characteristics.
What's more, there are also many female fans outside the World Cup. Football is a national sport and is not exclusive to men, although there are more male fans.
Football is not all
Big balls like football and basketball have some national attributes.
There is a football field in the center of the playgrounds of many schools. As for basketball courts, there are more, and many communities have basketball courts.
Many people spend their childhood playing basketball and football with three or five friends. I don’t want to be an exception either. In a physical education class in elementary school, I picked up the football excitedly. I just kicked it out not far, but I hit it back and hit it. In a daze, I made up my mind that I would never touch this ball again. Later, I was hit by a basketball and it hurt for an afternoon.
Someone was hit by the ball: "It's fun, stand up and continue." I was hit by the ball: "What's the matter, I won't touch it again." /pexels
is insulated from these two big balls, so I basically bid farewell to sports, but I discovered a bigger world.
One of the consequences of the common prosperity of material and spiritual civilization is that the world has become smaller, but the spiritual world has become larger and larger.The world becomes smaller, on the one hand, because of the convenience of transportation, which is the superficial meaning; on the other hand, due to different concerns among people, various subcultural circles have been formed, and small worlds of interest have formed a bizarre picture of the parallel universe.
You have your trendy toy circle, I have my Marvel community, he has his hiking group, she has her fan circle, each of which is wonderful and parallel to each other.
The big football that was able to cover everything in the past is now one of the thousands of interests small football .
The walls between different circles of interest are sometimes very thick. My friend doesn't understand that in order to premiere of "Avengers 3", I have to go to Hong Kong alone to watch it. "Is it different to watch movies? Isn't it enough to wait for resources?"
They don't understand my obsession with the world in the movie, just as I don't understand their obsession with staying up late to watch football. They don't know how to applaud when Captain America appears, and I don't know how to roar and cheer when they see Messi scored . I can barely play with this
. /pexels
But I can understand that joy. Argentina won the Hercules Cup and waited for 36 years. 36 years, this is older than many people, so this excitement and joy. Maybe when Captain America returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe 10 years later, I will be happy at the same level, right?
In this small world with diverse interests and parallel interests, hobbies are also specialized in professions. Even if it is refined into the Marvel category, there are smaller units of interest. Some people are comic fans. Once there are new plots or new characters in the movie, they can correspond to which comic they are. The specific adaptation can be said very well; some people are figure fans, not only buying figures, but also doing it themselves; some people are Cos fans, who can cos their favorite characters and integrate themselves into that world.
Some interests make people excited, such as football; some interests make people feel quiet.
World Cup, goodbye
Life is often still. For example, when reading, you will gain a life experience that transcends your own, and will shuttle back and forth in one small world after another, which cannot be given by the passion of sports.
I recently like to read books in noisy environments, such as on the subway, the charming Erracos in the science fiction classic " Dunes ", the unique memory of Southwest Associated University in the memoir "School Records", the humanity test in the novel "The Plague", the awakening and responsibility in the biography "The Light Burner"...
World Cup, only one session in 4 years. Passion is temporary, and there are more when you are calm.
fans calmed down and played a live set, and I calmed down and read. /pexels
The calming stadium may become a tourist attraction, concert venue, stadium for surrounding residents, or may be demolished. The calming fans will eventually return to their own lives. The players who have calmed down - some are part-time jobs, have to return to their positions. As for professional players, some may retire and say goodbye to this green grass where you have sweated.
4 years and 4 years, as if it was a cycle of reincarnation, but time is gone like a wheel.
Media person and Caitou said: "When I was in my 20s, I had all kinds of people around me, which can be said to be a complete collection of male specimens. Now I am 47 years old, and after so many years of great waves, I was surprised to find that my friends around me were basically composed of nerds, and there were no real fans left. It was just that this kind of nerd is not the kind of bookworm in the traditional sense. Some people are specialized in business knowledge, some are specialized in art and collection, and some are obsessed with news and papers."
I believe that Messi's time is not allocated to football. As he gets older, he will leave, too, although this time he said he will "continue playing as a world champion."
Although I am not a fan, I also hope Messi will stay and play for another match. I don't watch football, but from the perspective of the story, I think this will be a legend.
Passion will continue. /pexels
The World Cup is over, and for many people, there is no big change.
No matter what, see you in 4 years, although I will most likely not be watching football by then.
