Dorothy Hamill
The 2014 Winter Olympics are here. Skating, skiing, snowboarding... I enjoy watching a number of the sports when I get a chance... and of course I cheer for the American teams and athletes. Over all I find it to be awesome and inspiring. To go above and beyond accomplishment.... to not only achieve reaching the end goal, but crossing the finish line in first place... to accept defeat with grace... to push the limit... to get up and keep going even after you fall... to have passion, not because you're good at something or because you can do it, but because you love it.
This is why we watch the Olympics, isn't it? To be moved. To be motivated.
But life is not all about achievement and passion. It is also about laughter. The kind that makes your guts hurt and your tears run. The kind of laughter that every company aims for when making a commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl:
Ah, yes. Life has many pleasures and pains. We prefer the pain that comes from pleasure such as laughter, but sometimes there's a great deal of pleasure that we get from pain. Like Jay Leno's last night on the Tonight Show after a good, long 22 year career. I didn't watch his show that often but it was a good last night. It's a big deal when a comedian cries. I think it's fair to say that everyone wonders if it will really be his last night. A comedian would do that though! Come back just for kicks. Jay was a bit crude, a bit crass sometimes but he went out with class (having Garth Brooks and Billy Crystal on his last show was epic!) and as the years carry on people will look back and remember the good ol' days when Jay Leno was the man who made us forget our worries at the end of the day.
Anyways... dinner is waiting, there are drinks to be drunk and amusement to be had.
Eat, drink and be merry folks.... because it makes the winter shorter.
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