Are you watching the Olympic games?\u00a0 Do you have a favourite event?\u00a0 One that you love to watch?\u00a0 One you wish you could have been part of?<\/p>\n
I’m not an athlete.\u00a0 I don’t love sports.\u00a0 Not that I don’t love the game, I’m just not good at anything and I choose not to get hit by things flying too quickly at my face.<\/p>\n
I was really good at bowling when I was younger.\u00a0 Five pin.\u00a0 \u00a0I was almost forced to do it, and then ended up loving it and doing really well at it.\u00a0 That’s as close as I come to being athletic and I’m totally fine with that.<\/p>\n
But there are times, when I IMAGINE I could be good at something.\u00a0 There are times when I have that dream that I am better at something than I really am.\u00a0 \u00a0Like figure skating.<\/p>\n
I guess that would be the one sport I love to watch.\u00a0 In amazement.<\/p>\n
When I was a kid, my dad would build us an ice rink every year.\u00a0 And when I got on the ice, I became someone else.\u00a0 Dorothy Hamill maybe?\u00a0 I had the bowl cut to match.\u00a0 So I channeled my inner athlete.\u00a0 The one I could never be.\u00a0 I would do figure eights on that ice and pretend I was a real skater.\u00a0 One who wasn’t struggling just to keep standing upright.\u00a0 In my head I was doing those jumps and spins.\u00a0 In my backyard I was lifting a leg and wobbling around the ice.\u00a0 But it was something I loved to do and will never forget those days on the backyard ice rink.<\/p>\n
I watch some of the games and am always amazed by the incredible talent these athletes have.\u00a0 The strength, dedication and pure love of the sport.\u00a0 \u00a0To see them do something they love to do and are really so good at.\u00a0 You can’t help but be amazed.<\/p>\n
I will never be an athlete.\u00a0 I will never love sports.\u00a0 \u00a0Unless shopping or scrapbooking becomes a sport.\u00a0 Then I’m in.\u00a0 But I will always be amazed by those who are.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to all our Olympic athletes competing at the Tokyo games.<\/p>\n
You inspire us.\u00a0 \u00a0And maybe I can’t do what you’re doing, but you’ve at least inspired me to get off the couch.\u00a0 And as I went for a swim at Ipperwash Beach last week, I channeled my inner athlete.\u00a0 Pretending, as I did the doggy paddle, that I was doing something much more challenging and graceful and worthy of a medal.<\/p>\n
We are all so proud of you.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Can Stock Photo \/ yarruta<\/p>\n
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