Gordon Monson on his observations of the rich and famous: 'All of it might be a whole lot of fun, but it doesn’t authentically fill or bridge gaps from where a person actually is to a genuine place of real self-fulfillment.'
Having spent coming up on 45 years of my career, inside and outside of sports, interviewing and writing about multiple thousands of so-called notable and/or accomplished or famous or influential or notorious or successful people, I’ve reflected back on what they’ve done and said, what they’ve been and represented.
Occasionally, I briefly wandered off into the lives of icons of different realms, people like composer Henry Mancini and chef Wolfgang Puck and politician-who-would-later-become-president Joe Biden. I spent an afternoon at the Playboy Mansion in the presence of Hugh Hefner and a few of his summer-dressed friends.
First, your sports “heroes” are not “heroes.” They are people with very specific abilities, people bumbling and stumbling through life, same as you, only with a whole lot more cash in their wallets, a private jet at their disposal, and all kinds of hubbub swirling around them. I once had a memorable conversation about that with Larry Miller, an imperfect-but-decent man who could afford whatever life would present him, and who most definitely enjoyed some of those mountainous bennies, but who also sought as much inwardly as he did outwardly. He was ruled by the things he thought were most important.
Some of the people I’ve interviewed appeared on the outside to have everything a human could wish for — the talent to double-pump a smash-hammer dunk through a hoop, to hit a baseball into the ionosphere, to thread a football 70 yards downfield into a bushel basket, but they were running half-empty on the inside.It’s just to reiterate that everyone is human.
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