Targeting the real gold

Many have come and conquered. Many have triumphed. And many grown victorious.

In the recent concluded Cluster Meet and even Saints Palaro 2022 in St .Lorenzo School of Polomolok, several spectators have gathered and witnessed a whole new pool of young athletes who, sooner or later, will rise as future star players.

Who says being the ace player of the team permits him/her in beating up the elder one?

Who says being the team captain enables him/ her in going against the authority? We expect to see amateur players or even beginners, right?

Yet, why did they seem to act more like the veterans? Intramural Sports is known to provide better avenues in building up confidence in oneself and development of skills and abilities but what happened was likely the otherwise.

Several budding players were, in truth, conceited as a forgotten Hall-of-Famer.

As a matter of fact, if the world’s famous boxer can humbly accept his defeat even in front of millions and millions of expectants of his victory, why can’t a starter?

The problem of these young people is they aspire to be good yet they are overcome by so much desire for fame and fortune that they think they need not any practice or advice. Worse yet, they forget to manifest the true essence of this annual event which is sportsmanship--being able to accept defeat or victory will all humility.

If the sole purpose of this event is to promote fame-hungry athletes, then we must stop holding such activity, right now. After all, we are The only ones who can help ourselves acquire the important values. That’s the only time when we can obtain the true gold.