One Man's View.

I think that parents and teachers do children a great disservice by placing great emphasis and pride on ideas such as loyalty and politeness when the reality is that as adults, neither are rewarded the way they should be.

I don't hold many people in high esteem, but I consider CM Punk to be one of the few on my shortlist of heroes. Strange enough, I've noticed that those I consider heroes either share a common trait with me or have been through similar situations as myself at some point or another.

While many fans reacted negatively to Punk's frustrated departure from WWE, I got his viewpoint in full. See, a big part of where he was coming from was about the situation with part-time wrestlers like The Rock and Batista coming back from hiatuses spanning multiple years and automatically getting handed main event spotlights upon their returns, which they didn't work to achieve whatsoever over guys who'd been busting their asses all year long. And the reason why I got what he was saying was because I've dealt with and witnessed that situation myself, but in the dating scene with females: They play the good guys in favor of roughnecks and thugs and then when it comes time to reap the consequences of their choices, they come running back looking for someone to comfort them after they've humiliated the dudes who meant well to begin with. It's an age-old tale that literally goes back many millenia.

The common denominator in both situations are the powers that be: The wrestling promotions and the women. Both have final say in who gets to be their main man and both are enamored by empty bravado in most cases. And as a side effect of their choices, they incentivize their prospects into unorthodoxy because they routinely reward that sort of negative behavior. Wrestlers leave companies high and dry, negatively effecting revenues, and they get welcomed back with open arms and all the spotlight in the world; Women choose nefarious guys and put well-meaning dudes in their back pockets and then both entities wonder why so many become disgruntled with them as time goes on.

It's anomalies like these which is why I wouldn't blame Punk for coming back as a part-timer, himself, and stealing the spotlight from guys who used to be in his previously loyal and humble position and why I don't blame average good guys for becoming the assholes that they sometimes do nowadays because after a while you get tired of getting screwed over. There's no incentive to loyalty or politeness if it's not going to be rewarded.