Big Rich Perspective on Tiger Woods

Everyone seems to have a perspective on the Tiger Woods saga. I have been thinking about his situation for the last week or so. To tell you the truth I have been surprised at the different reactions that I have heard. It is crazy to me that in this day and age people still look up to athletes as role models. I guess people are trying hard to look up to someone. Maybe it’s because they respect these athletes for working so hard to get all the success that they have had. There are not many athletes that I respect. For the most part I think that they don’t have a lot to do with the skills that they have. I’m sure that some have worked very hard. For the most part I think that they were born with extreme athletic ability and don’t have to work hard while us normal people bust our butts and see little results. So why should I respect them?

People today are searching. They are looking for something to grasp onto to show them how they should be living. Doing something because “It’s the right thing to do” just isn’t good enough anymore. Now there is no right or wrong thing to do. It’s all a personal preference. The truth that nobody wants to hear is that there is an actual right and wrong. There is a right way to live that will make you happy. People want to create their own happiness. In trying to create this happiness they make big mistakes along the way. In the long run they wonder where their happiness went. I think Tiger Woods was caught up in trying to selfishly find his own happiness. I know this sounds crazy but I don’t think this is all his fault, but he will have to pay for his mistakes. I think Tiger Woods has been set up to fail. Let’s just take a look at the way that society is telling us how to live and have a happy life. When we are young we are supposed to live life to the fullest. In college we are supposed to sleep with as many women as possible. We are supposed to party harder then we will for the rest of our lives. We are supposed to search and find out what makes us the happiest. After we have partied away our twenties we are supposed to settle down with one person and live happily for the rest of our lives without cheating on them. Does this seem fair? Who made it like this? Is it possible? We expected Tiger Woods who happens to be the richest athlete in the world to settle down with one woman after years of going around with any and every woman possible. I don’t think anyone would be able to do this much less the most popular athlete in the world. I would have been shocked if I found out that he hadn’t been with any other women. I think it’s hilarious to hear these journalists reprimand Woods without any answers for him. It used to be that journalists wouldn’t report on a celebrity or athlete that was sleeping around. Today journalists know that cheating on your wife is bad. Do they know why? They think it is a mean thing to do. “Tiger you shouldn’t have slept with all those women while you were married. You are so bad.” I think that maybe deep inside they have a moral compass that they don’t know what to do about. But here is the problem, they get mad at Tiger for cheating on his wife but they don’t mention what has made him cheat on his wife. They don’t mention it because they are living in the same lifestyle and if they are not they would if they could.

As someone who believes in the Bible I know what will make us happy. It’s very simple. God gave us guidelines for our happiness in Exodus 20. He called them the Ten Commandments. Why do you think God gave us commandments? Is it because stealing and murdering is just a mean thing to do? I don’t think so. He gave us these commandments because he knew if we followed his guidelines we would have a happy life. God wants us to be happy even more then we want to be happy. God kept sex for marriage because he knows what kind of power it has. Sex is meant to be had with one person that you have had made a commitment to. Taken out of the context of marriage it becomes a totally different thing. It becomes meaningless and just for physical pleasure. Tiger Woods ruined his marriage when he started a promiscuous lifestyle long before he was married. According to him happiness would be found by sleeping with countless beautiful women. I’m sure it was fun. I’m sure he had an amazing time. But there is a difference between fun and happiness. One has you enjoying life with no consequences for a season and the other offers true peace for a lifetime. He was just living the dream. He was searching for fulfillment even if he didn’t know it. Because of this his beautiful wife can’t fulfill his sexual appetite. Tiger Woods might be able to bounce back from this. He could eventually go down as the best golfer to ever live. But even that won’t bring the fulfillment and happiness that God can.