OLYMPIC SIZE (UN)SATISFACTION!!

Abhinav bindra shot his way to a gold medal in the 10m air rifle event today....Great, so v have already improved on our showing 4 years ago. Good. But is it a reason for mass celebration??....i mean i,ve been watching the news ever since morning and my initial excitement at the news died a quick death because of the amount of exhiliration and Almost hysteria like status of the mass media and infact even the common man over that ONE medal. v might even get a few more ...say like 3 and send the nation into trance.

My question is why r we SOOOO happy? why r v SO easy to satisfy..i hear people callin it a dawn of a new era in indian sports and terming it as a spark for future sporting accolades. This is exactly the kind of reaction that allows the sports ministry, the federations, and all the authorities to conveniently sit back and bask in an individuals glory and then wash their hands off any ACTUAL constructive efforts towards upping the standards....i mean why work soo hard towards achieving more when our nations satisfied with soo little. CHINA is using the olympics as a platform to tell the world that they have ARRIVED...and its not just the glitzy ceremonies, they are backing it up in the field.

Another issue is our media and our people giving DEMI-GOD status to anybody and everybody who achieves at THAT point of time...true, be happy about it, fecilitate them but dont put them on a pedestal and make them HOLIER-THAN-THOU. RVS Rathore, the silver medal winner last time got everything from a truckload of garlands to Cash prizes to soft drink endorsements within, SAY, the 1st month of him winning the silver last time and then was conveniently forgotten. Everybody knows the same fate awaits Mr bindra and any other unsuspecting soul to win a medal hereafter. By The Way...we should aim for atleast 20-25 and thats not gnna happen even in 2025( haha...i can get so corny)

And u know the question everybody keeps asking ------Why cant a billion people get more medals? I KNOW THE ANSWER....NO NO SERIOUSLY, I DO! its cuz ur parents and my parents want us to stay up late and study....its cuz they want us to be just like their neighbors or cousins kid who got 90% in maths or a cushy job in a bank, its cuz kids arent allowed to be kids sometimes and just follow their heart, cuz whenever a kid wants to take up a sport other than cricket (where i may remind...v r no wrld champs either and consistently get walloped by countries 1-1oth our size)...there is the general perception kee khel kood tak theek hai beta but kucch kaam kaaj bhee seekho. Be it sports or any other profession other than the run-of-the-mill...the dreams and ambitions are systematically hindered, blocked and sometimes strangled till theres no life left.

Well, i think i,ll go back to watching the channels hailing young abhinav as "King of beijing" (although the average beijing-ite wud probably have trouble pronouncing his name)....and when athletes like Micheal Phelps ALONE plans to garner 8 GOLD...something which if our whole nation won...there,d be people rolling on the floors with absolute unadulterated delight. And yeah there are lots of hot, toned , beautiful lady atheletes from 202 nations competing in the games ....DAMNIT, what am i doing posting this junk here.....uhh...errm ....CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS.....I GOTTA GOTIUS (i am the King of corn).