Definitions by The Original Agahnim
Vision
She saw dollar sign where others saw nothing, which she called vision (thinking it was somebody else's language than her own she was speaking).
Vision by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Simone Biles
The gymnast alive now that could get more medals than any other male or female gymnast one day, but there's always going to be somebody trying to throw the favorite off course with setbacks, which is why it helps when the favorite stays humble enough not to buy in to everything the media tries to build them up to.
There are forces that will conspire to throw someone like Simone Biles off, as they would with other favorites. People like that dedicate every bit of energy than Olympic athletes dedicate to going for a medal to throwing the game, the race, or the event.
Simone Biles by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Humility
The media hyping Simone Biles for the Tokyo games actually hurt her more than it helped her. People were aware of what she accomplished, but the media overdid it a little, and didn't allow her much room to enter the Tokyo Olympics with humility, as she did in Rio when she was not as well known. Sometimes when you go back to where you began, you don't stay lost.
Humility by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Athlete
Calling athletes champions does them justice and honors them, but once people start telling them they are superhuman, or that everyone should worship them as a role model, it doesn't just fuck with their heads, but it's also bullshit. Not everybody needs to be told who their role models should be (first responders and athletes come to mind as the ones the media often picks) since not everybody dreamed of being an athlete as a kid. You have a range of things from astronaut to truck driver to ice sculptor that kids wanted to be when they grew up, and really what is true to you is what will make you happy, but it won't always make everybody else happy, and that doesn't really matter. Tough love can sometimes help somebody believe that they're as human as everyone else without giving up on themselves.
Some kids have wanted to be an athlete their entire life, and they stuck with it, which is great, but they're not above the rest of us, any more than any one of the rest of us is above them. Every kid is different, so not every kid needs the same role model in life.
Athlete by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Reputable source
Scientists had been called a reputable source of information rather than misinformation about the coronavirus, and people were told not to question why scientists were reputable or had accurate information nobody else had.
Reputable source by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Tough love
Yesterday, they whined about tough love being abusive and how the guy should be more supportive. Today, they thought doing things in a kinder, gentler way was too weak, and that the guy failed them for lack of tough love.
Tough love by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
Tone it down
Someone telling someone else to tone it down usually has nothing to do with race, it's because the other person is full of shit.
He/she didn't like being told that he/she was full of shit even if the person that said tone it down had a point, and the one they said to tone it down to had no point, but still looked for anything he/she could to be argumentative over just to be argumentative, a stop sign being red not being good enough of an answer not to get argumentative about it without good reason, for example.
Tone it down by The Original Agahnim August 2, 2021