a thought.

the only thing worse than losing a competition you’ve striven your whole life to participate in is losing on camera in front of billions of people.

Even though Nastia Liukin did a hell of a lot better than the chinese baby, she tied, yet lost by technical default. And when all one probably wants to do at that point is go home and cry  til one dies, one has to instead sit and wait for the other 2389272093874 gymnasts to take their turn and hopefully not push you out of the ranks. Homegirl stuck it out though – she kept the mean mug on and tried as hard as possible not to cry, but started to lose it when she had to stand on the lower-level second place platform and listen to the Chinese National Anthem. Poor girl.

he kexin celebrates; nastia liukin tries not to cut her for it.

In response to this, the following conversation occurred with my friend Andrew:

Andrew: she’s a champ in our eyes…which, incidentally, she gives not a shit about

me: i mean

i wouldn’t give a shit either

at ALL

i didn’t come to this for you people

i mean, i did and i didn’t, ya know?when you have absolutely no life, piss poor social skills, and have broken, sprained, and fractured more bones than you can remember

and you make second place because a computer says so?

fuck america, and fuck you. as soon as this bullshit is over, i’m doing as many drugs as possible and sitting in my room for no less than 4 days straight

Now, as ignorant as that may sound, chances are that would be my exACT ungrateful, bitchass attitude. Mind you, it wouldn’t be like that if i’d simply done less well than the baby. But to lose like that would suck more than anything in life. In fact, I would probably think about the little mistakes I made on a daily basis, regardless of the other medals I’d won. Whatever. Call me a brat. That shit sucks. And the drugs part was an exaggeration. Realistically, I’d be too busy crying and throwing up to do much else, especially if I was a straight-edge athlete. Sigh. So it goes.