Would you consider swimming to be a self-involved hobby?
I read an article that said.
"He may be a workaholic, a womanizer, hooked on TV, caught in addictions or self-involved hobbies."
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To paraphrase my mother (and Forrest Gump's mother), "self-involved is as self-involved does." Sure, some swimmers are self-involved, but so are some runners, and body-builders, and rowers, and runners, and artists. I think a person who tends that way is going to be overly-occupied with self and with performance no matter what activity he or she engages in. I don't think swimming brings out the selfish in people any more than any other activity does...
or maybe I'm too self-involved to notice :)
To paraphrase my mother (and Forrest Gump's mother), "self-involved is as self-involved does." Sure, some swimmers are self-involved, but so are some runners, and body-builders, and rowers, and runners, and artists. I think a person who tends that way is going to be overly-occupied with self and with performance no matter what activity he or she engages in. I don't think swimming brings out the selfish in people any more than any other activity does...
or maybe I'm too self-involved to notice :)
