Olympic trials are crazy, man, I mean, really terrifying.
I don’t think I’ve seen anything so real and downright scary
for a long time. I was just watching some of the gymnastic Olympic trials on
Friday night (how cool am I) but I was just amazed by how… intense the
competitors were. I heard the commentators saying over and over things like
“look at how serious she is” and “she’s being very aggressive, and that may
come back to bite her, because as soon as she lets down her guard…” and stuff
about all of these tiny tiny tiny tiny technical things…. It was very nerve
wracking.
Although, I didn’t really think too hard about all of these
things until I saw a girl in a magenta leotard. She did a nice and simple mount
onto the balance beam, and was doing some fancy prep for some kind of jump
(sorry I have no idea about any kind of technical terminology for gymnastics,
or really, anything, don’t shoot me) and the commentators were saying how she
was taking too long, and she was being too jittery. I didn’t really see
anything that would have betrayed such a thing; her face was still, her limbs
were rigid with such a kind of beauty that comes only from practice and
enforced technicality; there was nothing my amateur eyes could detect. But then
I saw her feet. They were fidgeting something terrible, shuffling back and
forth and looking as terrified as I had ever seen any pair of feet. And then,
it kinda clicked with me. She was on TV, being broadcasted all over the United
States, trying to compete for a spot in a competition that people from all over
the world take part in. She was darn right to be nervous! But I can’t imagine,
under those circumstances, to be my 110% best in every way. I would probably
pass out right then and there.
So for that reason, and hundreds more, I am not going to
ever be in the Olympics, or anything resembling such an event. And I’m very
sure all of you already know this, but the Olympics are SERIOUS BUSINESS. (That's her below, I think.)
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