I Always Get Emotional During the Olympics...

As I watched the Olympics last night I witnessed one of the amazing acts of courage and fortitude that has come to mark one or two of the events above all others at each Olympics. Tonight one of the team skating duo's from China amazed us with a courageous performance after what should have been a night ending crash. When the team finished their performance and did it well enough to take Olympic Silver I began to tear up. Why do I do this? I know nothing about figure skating, nor do I care to know anything about figure skating. I have no invested interest in China's medal bid, nor for that matter in America's Olympic skating bid, but I do have an interest in sacrifice, going an extra mile, reaching into a place one did not know they had before and finding the ability to go on. I get emotional because the brief intensity of an Olympic moment like tonight, and how it mirrors that dramatic triumph we all aspire to accomplish in those moments of truth throughout our own lives. Those moments give me hope, inspiration and the courage to believe I too can accomplish, against all odds, that which I aspire to. The olympic drama, the culmination of four years of hard work, lofty goals and dreams yet to be realized, is a microcosm of life and its hope and dreams. Its either that or Im just a big emotional basketcase.
Pax
Stephen