Of infidelity and shattered dreams

Most people are aware of the complete collapse of American golfing legend Tiger Woods since Thanksgiving. So there is no need for me to belabor the facts that the tabloids have uncovered and reveled in over the past three and a half weeks. So I will just address what I see as the obvious problem that remains.

From the beginning, after I got over the initial shock of reports of his supposed serious auto accident on that morning, I knew instinctively that something was wrong. Something was amiss. In retrospect? That was one helluva understatement.

In either event, I have known for the past couple of weeks, ever since we past about number four of the identified mistresses, that this man could not have screwed his life and career up worse, had he put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

And that is the part that concerns me now. I have like many people, been watching and cheering Tiger Woods since he first turned pro and began his odyssey and assault on the record books and legends of professional golf. I think the one thing that captured my interest as I am sure it captured the interest of millions of others, was the fact that for the past ten years, we actually had a sports figure that we could believe in.

Someone who was clean and wholesome and beyond and above the day to day flotsam that surrounds so many and taints and tarnishes the rest of the lot that call themselves celebrities and stars. But as we all now know, that was not the case. Tiger Woods was and is every bit as bad of a bad boy as they come and the emperor's new clothes in this case, are definitely in tatters now.

How this all plays out in the end is certainly anybodies guess, but I see a deeper and more sinister end to the drama, than simply his wife leaving him and his major sponsors backing out on him. I see a far worse melt down and a far more sinister final chapter to this tragedy.

Tiger Woods is not your average athlete or your average thug for that matter. He has spent a lifetime being trained and crafted to play a game and fit into a system that was and remains completely alien to his racial heritage. And much in the same as when people undergo a makeover of appearance, tiger Woods underwent a makeover of persona from the day he was born until the day his mentor (his father) passed from this world.

Tiger's world as a world class and legendary professional golfer and seemingly perfect family man, has not only been shattered and completely destroyed IMO, but it has left the man abandoned now. Tiger Woods the man is now existing inside the matrix world that was created for him from the day that he was born. the problem is, that now he has been unplugged. He no longer fits. He is out of touch and he is metaphorically pacing around inside his personally created hell, searching for that one phone call that is the out. The means by which he can be extricated from this nightmare and returned to his life of bliss and loving cups and multimillion dollar endorsements.

That is all gone now and it won't return ever, no matter how badly either Tiger or his fans wish for it. A career and life that is literally irretrievably broken, cannot be mended by either hiatus or therapy. Which brings me to the next reality of this tragic drama.

Tiger Woods is in a lose lose proposition of emotions in my opinion. He has lost his career and his family and now he is sitting and watching his fame and legend as they are slowly eroded and taken away by the very circumstances that he is responsible for creating. If Tiger Woods was any one of a hundred other professional black athletes? I would say that he would roll with this and in the end come out on the other side with a book deal and legions of adoring fans who would gladly accept him back while laying the demon seeds of what he did to his family onto his wife.

But that won't happen here and I am not the only one who recognizes that. And worst of all.....Tiger Woods recognizes it. Therefore, I see a continuing spiral into oblivion for Tiger. He may in the near term opt to move his hiding location to France as has been reported. He may dive into the bottle or the prescription meds seeking solace from the waking hours that he can never reverse or change. But in the end, every time Tiger wakes up from here on out, all that he will see is what remains of a shattered storybook life.

And that is what in my opinion will lead to the end of Tiger Woods permanently. At the beginning, I said that Tiger couldn't have screwed his life up worse, if he had placed a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Sadly, I am now convinced that as each day passes, Tiger will come to that conclusion more and more. and in the end, there will be no other place for his tortured soul to turn.

I say that within the next year, we will one day awake to the news of the death of Tiger Woods, by his own hand. There is no other outcome for the man now IMO. All the kings horses and all the kings men can't help him now.