There is nothing I am loving more at the moment than watching the Winter Olympics.
My favorite section of the Winter Olympics is the Figure Skating! I have always been addicted to watching figure skaters in their beautiful routines of expression and physical strength. It bangs on the soppy heart strings of a forever girl like me!
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I can appreciate how hard these beautiful young people have worked over many years to develop the skills they have now. Watching them on the screen as their dreams come true is a pleasure.
The hard part is watching when they fall, or something goes wrong. Lets face it - if you work on something for 4 years it becomes everything to you. To have that fall apart is devastating - it could just happen in a split second.
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Still, for me the greatest warrior and the greatest winner is the person who picks himself or herself up off an icy floor and gets back on those skates and keep going. Sometimes, it's not quite about whether you got gold, it's about whether you finished your routine and held your head up high!!
That is a lovely lesson to send back over the TV screen to the supporters on their couches at home. :)