Let the Games Begin

As the Olympic Games start getting into full swing, I find myself caught up in the wonderful competition. Never has one event symbolized so much. I admire and respect all the atheletes who have trained so hard and worked so hard to perfect the events that they do. When, I see them perform on that world stage, I feel like I am watching the epitome of human spirit. Needless to say, watching them has become an incredibly uplifting experience.

The Olympic Games truly inspire me, despite all the politics surrounding and leading up to it. When, I see the athletes go with all their passion for Olympic Gold, I realize what a sad event it was to have protested and extinguished the Olympic Touch. I am not saying I agree with China's policies, but I also do not agree the actions taken by the protesters.

The Olympics are not about them.

It is about the athletes. We should honor and respect that this is their stage. In their competition, they symbolize the very struggles of nation against nation, of policy against policy. They are the pride of each nation. The Olympics was first created so that nations did not have to go to war, but rather settle their disputes in fierce, but nonviolent competition. We should always remember what the Olympics stand for, before we, the bystander citizens of the nations, start taking it upon ourselves to speak out, or act out. It is not our spotlight to steal. Let the competitors do the talking. The torch must always be lit. For it is that very torch that symbolizes the necessity of the games and the needlessness of warfare.