Sunday, February 7, 2010

Ambassadors Of The Country-No Right To Personal Lives?

I have always wondered why there is no line drawn between the professional and personal lives of people.And then i realised there is definitely a line drawn but it is a "fine thin line".A line that is very easy to be crossed leading to unnecessary media coverage and controversies.Well,the former is absent from the lives of common people like you and me.Thank God for small mercies!But what about those whose lives are under the constant media scanner?The latest John Terry ( Ex Captain of the England football team) controversy inspired me to write this post.Makes me wonder what the personal life of a sportsperson or an actor have got to do with their profession.Agreed that they are the 2 categories of people considered as the Ambassadors of their respective countries.But in all fairness it is not because of a John Terry or a Tiger Woods that numerous men are indulging in extra marital affairs.Humorous as it may seem,a John Terry or Tiger Woods with another woman is termed as "unfaithfulness" but a Brad Pitt or Saif Ali Khan with another woman is termed as "love"!!Come on now.By stripping them off their status is not going to reduce the number of extra marital affairs (which by the way never happened in the case of the latter group.Wonder why though!).These are the people who play for our countries and who entertain us respectively.So let us just sit back and judge them on that and not on their personal lives which by the way is not perfect for any of us!

2 comments: