The story of lance Armstrong is sad and tragic

The story of Lance Armstrong is sad and tragic and it seems he is going to keep on running. He went to the extreme lengths to win the gold medal by taking drugs, so he could earn the love and admiration from the public and then he became a bully to protect this admiration and this illusion of love and now Oprah is exploiting him to get more ratings, her fix to keep the painful feelings of the child she once was repressed and Lance Armstrong exploiting her to try to fix his image and get the admiration of the public back, they are using each other to run from facing and feel their own repression. When we admire people for who they are, instead of for what they have or do, we will have a better society. We are not the things we have or what we do. If you are the things you have or what you do, one day if you lose all your things and cannot longer do what you do, you are nothing, right? It came to mind this answer Alice Miller gave to one of her readers:

AM: You describe the life of millions of people, brilliant, unconscious, running for the the gold medaille in Vancouver or elsewhere and never feeling their sadness or rage about their parents who couldn't love them as they were. Fortunately, you found access to your feelings and you will lose your symptoms once you can fully face EMOTIONALLY your tragic life, once you become free of wanting to understand them, help them etc. As a child you had no choice, now you have one. You can stop to run.

http://www.alice-miller.com/readersmail_en.php?lang=en&nid=2991&grp=0210