09/16/2012
My definition of torture is the three months when English Premiere League and UEFA Champions League (all of Europe) is on break. This love affair with professional soccer began after spending three months playing none stop in both Venezuela and Disney World with my cousins. I was intensely passionate about the game and culture, FIFA frenzy some call it. So passionate that I decided to try out for soccer, and I made the team but just barely. By barely, I mean my coach told me I only made the team because I could run as much as the veterans. Being part of this team made me part of something much bigger than me, something with a bigger goal than my personal goal. This feeling is what fascinates me about sports, and especially makes me enjoy the Olympics and international soccer. The innate feeling of companionship and competition giving millions of people the rush of being part of something exclusive to themselves, and yet shared with the rest of their nation. This contradictious phenomena was recently highlighted in a GQ article on the electronic dance music movement. Where the article explained that the unchanging rhythmic pattern of rising and crashing sounds make each listener feel like they are the only one predicting the next note, yet the whole crowd does too and they dance together to the music. This unity of people without the loss of individuality, that is what I have learned to love about sports and music.
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