microaggression 🪔

Albert Einstein showed beyond doubt that time wasn’t absolute, as Isaac Newton believed – trust a former German citizen to ruin an Englishman’s conception of the universe – but for now, without access to vehicles that move at the speed of light, the absolute and linear concept of time is the only human experience that exists without taking psychedelic substances. And sadly, that means slowly, the greats who have defined the last two decades of sports are slowly being put out to pasture in retirement. In tennis, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal – two gentlemen who redefined both the game and the art of being gentlemen – have hung up their rackets. We will never see their contrasting games – Renaissance painter with a racket vs a Davidian sculpture made with a chisel – ever come up against one another. The same goes for football, where Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have now both hung up their international footballing boots. Both careers played out in the Age of Social Media, and much has been written – even in Offside – about Ronaldo’s insouciant petulance in the last days of his career, but remembrances should be about good things, not bad ones. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…