The Strange Nature of Sport and Its Relevance to You
There are a lot of people out there who don’t enjoy sport. Some people don’t play them, others don’t even watch them. Fair enough; sport, as with anything else, is an interest that not everyone has to enjoy to be a decent human being. All the same, there is a very good lesson to be taken from sport that I think bears noting, and it’s not one of the obvious ones (i.e., athleticism, teamwork).
Consider winning a title or breaking records. You celebrate that winner’s skill and prowess and dedication to their sport, you note their talent… and you silently downplay the countless stream of circumstances that brought them onto that podium.
It’s something all athletes acknowledge on some level or another, and it’s something all athletes acknowledge as being part of sport in general. So… what IS it?
from a tom boy to a girly girl at the tender old age of 28
