...you look at his character from the right perspective. We're adults, the lesson Cena's character teaches is one we've already learned or one we're too jaded to care about, but from the eyes of a child it may be one of the most important lessons there is. Imagine you're a kid from a broken home, your parents never amounted to anything and the only luxury in your home is a television that you have no control over, but the one thing that you can always count on is your deadbeat dad watching Monday Night Raw every night. When you look at your surroundings, your life, how unfair it all seems, then you just want a place to escape and for three hours each week you get a place where there is a little hope.
That example is designed to be a bit extreme but it is to emphasize the point. For a kid like that, John Cena may be the only bit of motivation they get in their life. Cena gets beaten down night after night but fights back and wins, even when Cena loses it doesn't get him down, he just works harder to achieve his goal. And I have no doubt that this beating from Brock Lesnar will show that even when you try your hardest but you are completely overwhelmed, it is still important to hang on, to keep in the fight, and to never give up.
For a lot of kids it is easy to give up, it is easy to look at the trailer you live in, the bully that won't stop in school, and the endless pressure to make something of yourself when you don't have a single example of how as a reason to give up. Kids love John Cena not because of his bland catchphrases or the repetition of his moves, kids love John Cena because he is someone worth aspiring to be. He is a ray of hope that, even in the worst of situations, even when anger and frustration is overwhelming, you can still find a way out.
It isn't perfect, it can be immature, and it can be lame, but in the end none of that matters. John Cena isn't for the adults, he isn't repeating certain values because WE need to hear them over and over, he is repeating them for that kid that may only ever hear it when John Cena is speaking directly into the camera to them. And while you may hate him as a face, while you may have loved his heel run because he was 'so much cooler' then, you have to respect what he does because what he does is so much more important than we ever give him credit for.
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That example is designed to be a bit extreme but it is to emphasize the point. For a kid like that, John Cena may be the only bit of motivation they get in their life. Cena gets beaten down night after night but fights back and wins, even when Cena loses it doesn't get him down, he just works harder to achieve his goal. And I have no doubt that this beating from Brock Lesnar will show that even when you try your hardest but you are completely overwhelmed, it is still important to hang on, to keep in the fight, and to never give up.
For a lot of kids it is easy to give up, it is easy to look at the trailer you live in, the bully that won't stop in school, and the endless pressure to make something of yourself when you don't have a single example of how as a reason to give up. Kids love John Cena not because of his bland catchphrases or the repetition of his moves, kids love John Cena because he is someone worth aspiring to be. He is a ray of hope that, even in the worst of situations, even when anger and frustration is overwhelming, you can still find a way out.
It isn't perfect, it can be immature, and it can be lame, but in the end none of that matters. John Cena isn't for the adults, he isn't repeating certain values because WE need to hear them over and over, he is repeating them for that kid that may only ever hear it when John Cena is speaking directly into the camera to them. And while you may hate him as a face, while you may have loved his heel run because he was 'so much cooler' then, you have to respect what he does because what he does is so much more important than we ever give him credit for.
Thanks for reading.