There are two things I think everyone learned this week.<\/p>\n
#1 We as a nation CAN still come together.\u00a0 Everyone was on team Damar Hamlin this week.\u00a0 Didn’t matter who you voted for, or if you knew anything about football.\u00a0 Everyone was rooting for that young man to recover.<\/p>\n
#2 Famous people are people.<\/p>\n
We look at celebrities- be they actors, professional athletes, or whatever else they might be famous for –\u00a0 and just see the glamor.\u00a0 We see the cars and the houses and the clothes.\u00a0 But every single one of those people are someone’s son or daughter.\u00a0 They are someone’s sibling.\u00a0 They are someone’s friend since third grade.\u00a0 They stub their toe in the dark.\u00a0 They have car trouble.\u00a0 They get colds.\u00a0 They have a favorite sweater.\u00a0 \u00a0They love.\u00a0 They bleed.\u00a0 They hurt.\u00a0 They hope.<\/p>\n
If you saw any of the footage of the players after Damar collasped you didn’t see people being fabulous.\u00a0 All bravado was dropped.\u00a0 \u00a0You saw raw emotions.\u00a0 From Josh Allen’s thousand yard stare to Stefon Diggs openly weeping.\u00a0 You saw people who were competitors a minute earlier coming together and embracing and praying and comforting each other without any concern about cameras.\u00a0 You saw people trying to process and deal with something none of them had seen before.<\/p>\n
You saw people.<\/p>\n
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