Olympics Series – #3
Heartbreak
I watched a lot of the American Olympic trials that were broadcast about a month before the games. They are really more heartbreaking to me than the Olympics. If you are at the Olympics, the heartbreak is falling short there. But if you fall short at the trials, you watch the Olympics at home on TV like the rest of us. For some, it’s disappointing, but they have been to the Olympics in years past and won something. But for those who don’t get there the first time, and perhaps will now never get there, it is not just disappointing, it’s depressing.
What they need, even more than some of the Olympians, is Olympic size courage. Courage to lay down one dream gently and pick up a new one, one for which they might not even know where to start looking.
I admire greatly those who don’t make it after trying with all their might. I always feel for them but I also always root them on to find a new dream.
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Drawing by Marty Coleman, who has never been to the Olympics.
Quote by Mike Singletary
Winning is cool, feels great. I wish I did it more often.
I know, but there can only be one winner… or winning wouldn’t be special.
Hi Michelle, I understand what you mean about how hard the process is. I went through it a number of times in my career, but also in my personal life. Divorce tends to make you have to create a new dream! I like the poem, very appropo!
I would love to know where and how you found my blog and how long you have been following it.
Thanks,
M
Hi Marty,
A friend forwarded a link to your blog. He has a way of finding a little of everything on the web, and often forwards interesting ones on to a group of us. I guess I’ve been reading/seeing your blog for about a year now.
I’ve been contemplating laying down an old dream and being open to finding a new one. It’s been a long hard process. I appreciate your thoughts on this, Marty.
Here is a poem I came across in my contemplative time, which is helping me find courage to look ahead. I don’t know the author (my apologies).
Never mind yesterday, Life is today.
Never mind yesterday, lay it away.
Never mind anything over and done.
Here is a new moment, lit with new sun.