Booney wrote:The Dark Knight wrote:I must say I enjoyed the insight to Ben Cousins life we saw through this documentary. The things he did were and the things he put his family through were shocking and horrific.
The way Ben trained throughout his time was the thing that amazed me the most. He trained so hard and to the point of exhaustion until his body could take no more. The way he would run his butt off for a period of time, stop, throw up and then keep running as hard as he could was amazing.
Drugs were then he reward, his release from all the pressure he put himself was under.
IMO the doco was a insight to how drugs destroy lives for the person who's doing them and the effects it has on the people around them such as their families and friends. It didn't promote and glorify drug use IMO.
You think Cousins' life has been destroyed? Seriously. Cousins is fit, healthy, successful, financially sound with many family and friends still by his side supporting him. Destroyed? I think not. As far from destroyed as you can get.
As far as being an addict goes, he made decisions on when and what he was going to take and knew when he would next be able to get away with it, not the actions of a drug addict in my view.
His story, albeit interesting for the average footy fan does nothing to educate the youth of this land on what drugs could do to you IMO.
Yeah I guess detroy is not the right word to use, how about changing him for the worse?
The drugs he was taking were changing him for the worse on the inside, his metal health and state of mind rather than his physical health and the way he looked. He's an extremly fit man so his apperance didn't seem to change much when he was on the gear.
It had more effect on him on the inside where he would think about was getting through what he had to do, work as hard as he could and then reep the rewards, the drugs. As he said he would train as hard as he could and then "Get into and annihilate as many dugs as I could."