Medalling in Mediocre

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Are you guys Olympic Crazy??

I know I am. For the last 10 days, it has been all olympics all the time.

I love watching the athletes, watching them reaching their goals, competing against the worlds best and knowing that they have been working their butts off for the last 4 years or even more to reach where they are now.

It also has made me realise that I have reached an age, where I doubt I am going to represent New Zealand on the sporting stage, or create some amazing new product that will make me millions. I am set for a life far more mediocre and it wasn't until now that I realised just how important I am.

If it wasn't for ordinary people like me, then our Olympic athletes could not rise to the level of extraordinary.   The thought made me feel a little warm inside. Yep thats right, I help put things in perspective. We can't all be child prodigies or Web millionaires, because then no one would be special.

I medal in mediocre, in fact I reckon I would get a gold.

As for my yet to be born son, now I can imagine the greatest for him. A future All Black? A Nobel Prize winner or Rhodes Scholar? To be honest he could be anything he wants, as long as he doesn't walk in my door and tell him he has just been selected for the Wallabies... Vomit