If someone asked me when I was a child what I wanted to be, I could say that three were my dilemmas/desires!
Language and Literature teacher, doctor, or gymnast. In the first one alone, I think I had a real chance.
I adored the gymnasts the most, perhaps because of their beautiful young physique, but more because, like every child, flying is their greatest desire and the only flight they achieve after the birds is them, the gymnasts.
When I first saw Simone Biles, I joined millions of others in awe of the girl who can fly.
The 26-year-old has entered the history of the Olympic Games as we speak today, a move that has never been done before, - Yurchenko double pike, - and journalists and sports people believe that we will not see another Simone Biles for a long time. She is able to do three spins in the air, land on her feet, not break her leg, not die. As she beautifully said in her confession, she is always afraid before her spins in the air, she tries not to lose her concentration, her breathing, not to break a leg and especially not to die.
On Netflix you have the two-episode documentary about him. But prompted by that documentary, I want to highlight some lessons that the life of this sportswoman gives us.
The first is that success is not the result of super talent. Simone, although with an element of the inexplicable, in her dances, is human, she is a girl who has taken her talent to the front with monstrous work. So Simone, despite her paradigm, is not superhuman. There are no superhumans among humans.
Second: When you win for the first time, that is, from an unknown person you become the main person, everyone loves you. Everyone likes someone who gets it right the first time.
Third: After success comes expectation, you just have to win. If you lose, if your foot slips, as it makes sense in this case, you are crucified.
Should this happen? Yes, of course. There is no private success, so the greater the fame and success, the more inevitable accountability to the world.
It's very interesting why Simone Biles disappointed with her performance at the Tokyo Olympics.
The pandemic and the voices in Simone's head prevented her mind from communicating with her body in that perfect synchronization that only she knows how to do.
In those games, the mind betrayed Simone Biles. The Olympic champion makes a decision on the spot and resigns.
The Internet was filled with criticism and attacks on him. Should a champion retire? Why did she leave the race? Why did he betray the team? Why did you go home?
In the documentary, it is clearly understood why she ran away and left the race in the middle.
But people, if they don't see that you killed a leg, an arm, they think you're fine. That a champion must endure everything to not disappoint followers and managers to make money. That you have to bleed to look like you're in pain. The pains are invisible, even without blood.
And this is lesson 4 that the Internet teaches us that falls short in every case! The internet that blood wants…
Simone's problem was invisible. It was inside the head. Depression did not allow her brain to work quietly.
Meanwhile, the judgments from the hair to the withdrawal from Tokyo 2020, were the voices in the champion's head.
A champion who stuns us for refusing to be tortured in the name of fame, money, the internet. We who have been taught that you must be Spartan in life. Us, maybe my generation and above, but not today's youth. And here I came to lesson 5.
The fifth is the most beautiful lesson we get from this story. If one shines, one is not condemned forever to be brilliant. Simone doesn't live in the times when colleagues like her were thrown like cannonballs. It's true today it's the internet and unbridled hate and filters, but we live in a much fairer world for women, for races, for mental health.
◦For me, Simone Biles has put another stone in this direction.
Giving up when it was bad, coming back despite denigrating and discouraging internet comments, as is happening to him lately.
From Simone Biles, I believe we should only see the bad side of this time. Because she also lives in this time, she has the opportunity to say No, or Yes when she judges it. In the middle of the game, at the end, etc etc!
Then her triumphant return to Belgium and now to Paris are only about the will and strength of spirit that Simone has born herself. No one can teach this fighting spirit, and even time, even if it is golden, cannot teach it! You either have it or you don't!
Currently, Simone Biles has received all the gold medals that exist, and a diamond goat rests on her neck, not without reason.
