If you live in the US, unless you've been in a cave over the
last few months and especially in the last week, you've heard
about Michael Vick's alleged involvement in a dog fighting
ring... Well, not just "involvement" but in actually owning the
dogs AND the property they were raised on, trained on... and
killed on.
Now, I'm not going to get into how horrible that is, because
that goes without saying. Growing up, we always had a dog. I
loved every one of them... I know why dogs are called man's best
friend.
Fighting dogs is sickening. Period.
I read the indictment... It's chilling.
The point about it I want to make light of is this...
It's hard to change who you are. The environment that Michael
Vick (and his very troubled younger brother Marcus) grew up in
was one where gangs ruled. And often, the only way to get along
was to go along.
To paraphrase an old cliché, you can take the boy out of the
street, but you can't take the street out of the boy. That is
not meant to be an excuse for what he did... far from it. If
these accusations are true, and it appears that they are, he
deserves what he gets. The point is, on the behavioral side of
the matter, don't most people usually know what the right thing
to do is and what they should do even as they're doing something
else entirely?
There is a line in the movie, Rocky Balboa, where Paulie
reminds Rocky of something he told Paulie years before... It's
that if you do something long enough, that's who you become.
How true.
And again, this letter is NOT about dog fighting. The
infraction, crime, bad habit, fear, mistake, negative emotion
could be anything...
The thing I want you to keep in mind is that when you've lived
your life a certain way for years, or if you've done something a
certain way, if you have a set of long-held beliefs about a
thing, a process or a group of people, it often takes a lifetime
to change those habits (mental patterns) even with a lot of
effort to do so.
In Michael Vick's case, even a $130 million dollar contract
PLUS tens of millleeeons more in endorsements could not take the
street mentality out of him. While never a trouble maker on the
team nor a complainer, apparently he never got very close with
teammates like he did and continues to be with the old friends
from the rough streets.
A point was made on ESPN this morning that even if one of his
dogs won a fight, it would never make him any more than a few
thousand dollars... a pittance compared to his $130,000,000.00
football deal.
So what made him risk everything... what could he possibly have
been thinking?
The truth is, he was just doing what he's always done.
THAT is why it's so hard to change.
Patterns... habits. All conditioned in over time.
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