Culture is about sport

After posting a lot of posts called ''Culture is about X'' I've been thinking in something that I'm really not sure if is culture or not, but is a lifestyle : the culture of sport.

Since I was born I swim in a team called Club Natació Badalona. Since I was born literally means since I was born. During the years I've been training hard. Training hard means to get up at half past 5 and start your day at 6.00 h with a training session of two hours long. Then go to the school and without having my hear dry come back to the pool from seven to half past nine. And what is worse repeat 6 days per week. Of course, when we have an important meet instead of 6 days per week it's seven.
Yes, I think you have to be crazy to do it. You have to choose what you want when you are really really young. And it is hard. It's hard to see while your classmates enjoy Saturdays you're in a pool racing.
But, with the years you establish priorities and surprisly what you choose is your sport, in my case swim. Why does it happen?
It's simple, all these years of effort, diet, no social life are addictive. Only athlets could understand it but the sport give you all. Give you real friends, a good life style, give you strong mind, sacrifice, be constant, no give up and what is the best part fight for your dreams.

I would not express what sports make you feel like and I'm also sure that is not an art. But I'm thinking about sport as a culture. A culture of sacrifice, of constantly of lots of things... that makes you bigger as a person. What you learn inside the pool is what you do outside and it is totally true. For me, beeing an athlet is a culture. A different one but I could understand sport as a culture after this subject!


In honor to all the people who loves sport (at any level) :



We are what we repeatedly do.
Exellence then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle