Was he passionate?

It has been long going conversation with the men in my family, to understand the competitiveness of sports on any arena. In sports handicap can be an added advantage or disadvantage. This movie was like watching demolition derby and rugby
A statement was made during the movie paraphrased, the way Zupan was before the accident didn’t change after the accident if anything it got worst. How should we view the handicap, just as we view anything else or anyone else we encounter in our everyday life. We all have handicaps no one is perfect. It can be a hindrance or realization.

There was a feeling of empathy watching the film, not only for the handicap but for the handicap’s family.
It is difficult to imagine how it would feel to wake up one day get out of bed, live your life as you always have, and the next day not being able to move. There was a conversation years ago with a person that had lost their mother. A statement was made “I understand how you feel; before the statement was complete the person who had lost their mother says “it is impossible for you to understand unless you have lost your mother”.

Watching the movie was very emotional and hard to understand why a person who sustain an injury risk making that injury worst. I wonder if there was a passion for life or a death wish. I wonder if there are stages as with anything in our lives that a person goes through after this type of accident. The movie reminds me of watching the composition of a war, personal revenge, recruitment for more men, then the final feeling of success or failure. I wonder if this is what competitive sports is really all about.