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I saw some preview to the olympics last night.
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
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Do you want to be regarded as successful so that you can feel an inner sense of accomplishment; or because you want reassurance that you are successful because of what other people think of your achievements?
Light wrote:
> Some would say that it is better to live humbly for a cause, and do a
> million and one unnoticed but essential things, than it is to do one
> glorious but innessential achievement.
Hmm, perhaps. But I'd just like to feel I've achieved something worthwhile - not something 'essential' but that anyone could do.
Perhaps it just boils down to wanting to be special. Which is a pretty feutile pursuit whatever you manage to achieve.
But I think for me it's more about challenging a frontier, pushing back some boundary...
> Failing that, you could come to the same conclusion I regretfully
> came to; that greatness isn't achieved overnight, and takes a lot of
> hard work.
Heh, I hate that conclusion.
Even so, you need a direction before you can start to put in any of that work...
And yeah, I don't get it as a spectator sport, in most of those individual events there's no drama, little tacical to-and-fro, no jaw-dropping feats (or at least they don't look exciting), just people doing things. Albeit very well.
I remember on that program last night there was an interview with Nicole Cook, a welsh cyclist, and a very good one (another prospect for gold). She was talking about a medal bringing the public's attention to cycling, as a spectator thing.
Heh, it won't be there for very long. It's duller than cricket :^)
> Some would say that it is better to live humbly for a cause, and do a
> million and one unnoticed but essential things, than it is to do one
> glorious but innessential achievement.
Hmm, perhaps. But I'd just like to feel I've achieved something worthwhile - not something 'essential' but that anyone could do.
Perhaps it just boils down to wanting to be special. Which is a pretty feutile pursuit whatever you manage to achieve.
But I think for me it's more about challenging a frontier, pushing back some boundary...
> Failing that, you could come to the same conclusion I regretfully
> came to; that greatness isn't achieved overnight, and takes a lot of
> hard work.
Heh, I hate that conclusion.
Even so, you need a direction before you can start to put in any of that work...
And yeah, I don't get it as a spectator sport, in most of those individual events there's no drama, little tacical to-and-fro, no jaw-dropping feats (or at least they don't look exciting), just people doing things. Albeit very well.
I remember on that program last night there was an interview with Nicole Cook, a welsh cyclist, and a very good one (another prospect for gold). She was talking about a medal bringing the public's attention to cycling, as a spectator thing.
Heh, it won't be there for very long. It's duller than cricket :^)
Light wrote:
> I cannot, CANNOT, understand the attraction of athletics as a
> spectator sport.
The whole build-up to the Olympics is ridiculous. The point of watching is to see the fastest person, or the highest-jumping person, but if they get 0.1 of a second, or 1mm off their personal best, then it all counts for nothing, and they've wasted their year, life, and a whole load of money.
> I cannot, CANNOT, understand the attraction of athletics as a
> spectator sport.
The whole build-up to the Olympics is ridiculous. The point of watching is to see the fastest person, or the highest-jumping person, but if they get 0.1 of a second, or 1mm off their personal best, then it all counts for nothing, and they've wasted their year, life, and a whole load of money.
Sure, someone could spend their whole life preparing for the Olympics, but what if they skip a drugs test then fall off a moped? Back to packing bags at Asda for you!
monkey_man wrote:
But the Olympics are useless... and maybe the running (for getting away from
> wasps when you can't fence or box them into submission).
I cannot, CANNOT, understand the attraction of athletics as a spectator sport. When I were t'teenaged lad I got to the National Trials for 400m, which was exciting to me. However, for my Dad (who came to watch) it must have been as boring as sex between a couple married for 40 years...
"Oh look, there goes my son. Running around a track. Once. Wow."
But the Olympics are useless... and maybe the running (for getting away from
> wasps when you can't fence or box them into submission).
I cannot, CANNOT, understand the attraction of athletics as a spectator sport. When I were t'teenaged lad I got to the National Trials for 400m, which was exciting to me. However, for my Dad (who came to watch) it must have been as boring as sex between a couple married for 40 years...
"Oh look, there goes my son. Running around a track. Once. Wow."
This is gonna sound trite but...
Some would say that it is better to live humbly for a cause, and do a million and one unnoticed but essential things, than it is to do one glorious but innessential achievement.
Failing that, you could come to the same conclusion I regretfully came to; that greatness isn't achieved overnight, and takes a lot of hard work.
Some would say that it is better to live humbly for a cause, and do a million and one unnoticed but essential things, than it is to do one glorious but innessential achievement.
Failing that, you could come to the same conclusion I regretfully came to; that greatness isn't achieved overnight, and takes a lot of hard work.
Well done to your sister's mate's dog's previous owner's car's previous owner's man who sold it to him's long lost Brother's penpal from Beijing's English friend. But the Olympics are useless. Except for fencing and boxing, and maybe the running (for getting away from wasps when you can't fence or box them into submission).
One of the PE teachers in my school is in the olympic for the exciting sport of... Wait for it...
Bowls!
Ahwell.. Still good i suppose.
Bowls!
Ahwell.. Still good i suppose.
I saw some preview to the olympics last night.
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
Once again, there were clips of the sister of a friend I knew in primary school.
Aparantly she's our hope for the first gold medal in some sort of olympic gymnastics for a billion years.
Obviously, full credit to her, it's a great achievement.
It's kind of made me feel a bit useless, drifting along achieving nothing, while someone I used to know (well, met several times) is, in the next couple of weeks, possibly going to prove herself to be the best in the world in her chosen field.
I guess it's similar to searching for a career I can love, now looking for something I can be really successful in. (Bah, if I had the dolphins I could do both :^D )
Maybe I'm just setting my standards too high again, we can't all be world-beaters at stuff. But then again, I'm sick of accepting failures.
Once again, I don't know if this is getting stuff of my chest, or looking for advice. Again, I think it's a bit of the two.
I don't know what I'm looking for, some way to do something really significant, meaningful.
But how?
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