Special Olympics

Many times my brother has been going for the event but i was unable to attend every time! But on 06/06/09 i attended the event with the role as a coach for my school MINDS IEDC. I didn't expect to feel much about anything because i thought i saw all kinds of sports spirits as i enjoy understanding sports! But at that time i really was amazed by the very first event, the 10M assisted walk event. I saw a very young boy from Rainbow Centre Yishun Park, he is the youngest of the 3 competitors, when the start horn blows, the other 2 competitors already dash forward to the finish line! But you only see that only boy who is really way back be hide far away! Seeing this view, i was so touch by the fighting spirit of that boy! He didn't give up even when he saw all the 2 other participants had already finish the race. As the third party view, i was so move by the spirit, because you will see every small steps he takes, its was so pain, so heavy, so tiring that he really took almost close to 7mins to finish 10M. I honestly will give up if i really see myself still a the starting line as all other participants had already finished! Next i will tell you about a girl from timor leste, she is the only one with intellectual disability and physical disability. She was in the event of 1500M single female. She was limping all the way and you see her performance was not affected by the limping at all! She out ran 2 physically able competitors and was able to maintain a very short distance with the first runner. You will keep enjoying to see her and the first runner trying hard to out run each other, in the end she did her best but still falls in the 2nd place. Sometimes when you look at the events it seems to be boring, meaningless or funny, but have you open your eyes and your heart to see and feel? We may feel putting one foot forward seems nothing at all but for them, they need so much training, so much effort, so much strength! We sometimes compare them to ourselves, are we so strong that we can train and challenge our physical limits? I myself will forget that i have to admit! I forgot that walking is so difficult because i can run and jump. And please i think there will be a group of people who will think that they wouldn't feel anything even if they lost, we are wrong from the face i could see the sadness in their eyes! Intellectual disable people had the abilities to feel emotions! Now looking at myself i feels so shame, as a normal person, i doubt myself to harbour that kind of high standard spirits in me. They teach me alot! And helping me to understand the teaching that i heard from REV in temple! Now i seems to learn to look at things in a very different views! Thank you! Thank you all for enlightening me! And sorry for my lousy english!! Hahahahaha Forgive me (o-_-o)

By Leonard Pang 0==[===>