My Life, Your Story.

"Calling on Nadal for help" extracted from the ST blogs.

I watched Nadal played before. & it's always tiring watching him. With strong players especially. But the greater his opponent, the more his mental strength shows. & the sweet sound of victory at his ears everytime he laid there on the ground completely exhausted. Like wat the entry said, "The great player despises defeat and so he amputates all thought of quitting from his mind. This is what separates him from us, his will, his ability to continue..."

I remembered my 10km run last Sun. Passed the 5km mark, fatigue began to rush in coz my mind starts to get defeated. "HALF more journey to go?" i lamented to myself. I blamed the scorching sun, blamed my hurting knee cap, blamed Antz for not remembering my towel. Antz encouraged "It's all in the mind", and i scorned at it distastefully.

We walked for ~1km, & i contemplated on giving up, call the day off & shortcut back to the finishing point, saying "next time, next time i'll do better". But that was when i saw this Auntie. She must be in her 50s at least. Every step of hers felt so painful. Yet she continued to jog. Huffing & puffing her way through. There seemed to be no signs of her wanting to give up or walk.

I looked at her.

I got inspired. & i pushed myself.

We finished in a sweet 76 mins. & more than just being proud of myself, i'm really thankful for that Auntie. She served as an inspiration at the moment when i needed most.

I guess not only Sport is mental. Everything else is.

& in whatever we do, we could remind ourselves there's that someone who has done it before. If we could make great sportspersons, church leaders, our partners, family members, strangers even.. as our inspiration, how much more can we accomplish if we could learn to make Jesus as our constant inspiration, i wonder? :)