Kids and Sports

Here's a video i stumbled upon the other day. As and athlete, especially these last few years with my main focus being on cycling I've questioned my place in society. How being an athlete contributes, it's certainly a unique path, and in the sport of cycling a very entrepreneurial path in which it's your constant responsibility to generate opportunity. In my opinion it would compare to a sole proprietorship business in which you are constantly evaluating your net worth, you are selling yourself, you are managing your schedule, resources and career; which team to go with, which direction you want to take. It's simply not just about training hard, racing hard - riding a bike, you need a team, you need a network; you need to be savvy. So with all this effort into myself, I've wondered alot about how that's considered contributing. And I wouldn't say i contribute enough. But I can say that i'm happy, following my heart, and my gift happens to be in athletics. After spending some time working at a desk in an Architecture office, i came to realize, maybe it doesn't matter so much what you do, but what kind of person you are, and what kind of energy you carry. So i don't go about my day being a grump and dumping that on people, if you know what i mean. Perhaps it's living proof that anyone can achieve what they set out to do with a little planning and discipline. And like the video, it's kept me out of trouble and it's been a test to see what the human mind and body is cable of. I live a pretty awesome and privileged life, where I get to ride my bike all over the world, meeting new interesting people, and like anything it does come with a price. With every country i travel to, i have the pressure to perform, the pressure to keep it in the budge, and the need to succeed within an allotted time span. Sport has given me the opportunity to fully show up for my life, expand my perspective, be disciplined, set and realize goals, believe in my assets, communicate and succeed as a team; which are all pretty good skills for life in general.