Though I’ve been snowboarding for quite a while, but this is honestly my first time watching the winter x games, undisputably Shaun White was the best of all, he still is, but this is not what I want to talk about but the fact he fell horribly in a practice before the game.
If you haven’t seen the video yet, go see it, his was hit in the chin knocked his helmet off and I really thought he was dead until he climbed back up, a concotion seems unavoidable though. Here’s where most people say “I’m done”, and go on with their lives taking some rests from this accident, but apparently Shaun White didn’t, the second time he tried he won the gold.
He didn’t back out even a little, he tried the same tricks even harder ones during the game, is this courage? Or is this simply idiocy, ignorant of risks and families and friends’ carings? Is this what it takes to be on the top of the world? Or can there be some balance? Can we and should we be like him? What does No. 1 in the world mean to us?
Apparently being the number 1 isn’t necessarily everyone’s goal in life, usually we be the best we can be and suck up our failures. I still believe that the ultimate goal of life is to live happily and have no regrets, the only way to do. That is do what you love and make contributions to all, in this case the fame and individual success of being the number one just doesn’t seem as important.
We all have our own ways in the pursuit of life, those who are very capable live lives like Shaun White, pushing everywhile boundaries of the possible and impossible, normal people (those who would say I’m done after the crash) like me make the most contribution we can to the world.
