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The illusion of avoided tragedy


Our good friend shake n bake likes to talk about illusions a lot. Today I want to mention a very special kind of illusion. This is the illusion that appears when a disaster has unknowingly been averted.

Our perception tends to be skewed by the tangible, the obvious, and the easy-to-understand. If something bad happens, we realize that very tangibly. But if something bad is AVOIDED, we usually fail to appreciate the benefit.

You take a different route to work and miss getting hit by a runaway semi. Or maybe you pull your starters in the third quarter, thereby avoiding a severe concussion to one of your star players that would have occurred. Either way, you'll never know how much trouble you avoided, and you'll generally fail to appreciate that. However, you cannot fail to appreciate it when those disasters actually wind up happening.

All I'm saying is, everyone's alive and healing up. Nobody's ACLs and brains are on the line. This isn't 2005, and it's not 2007. It's 2009, and this 2009 team needs to get healthy to be the champion it knows it can be. Throwing banged-up players at a goal that will only get you a sad, pathetic banner hanging in your stadium is not a smart decision. Disaster has been averted.

Appreciate it.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors.