I notice on PostSecret a woman swim in pool. I recognize that because of the color of the water. It was blue. My fevered color is blue. Also I love swimming very mach. Perhaps this was the risen to look it. When you swim the only thing you can pay attention is the water around you and you breathing. Everything else is appearing faraway from you. Same times if you don’t want to be alone this could be very scary. Then make me read what I on this postcard. “The The only time…you wasn’t their. That makes me feel sorry for this woman. Possibly her parent wasn’t on her swim competition when she was little. For me this is kind of stupid. I am from Europe and in my country the parents don’t go to on this kind of events. I was in to sports teams and one for drawing. They did not appear even ones. But If I gat some medal or grams my parents take me to same cool pleases to celebrate. I love this and it was OK for me. If I don’t win they say next time and remove the pressure to win every time. This is the reason I start to think - O lot is the big deal? Then I read the rest of the text. And start to think is not exactly for sport event or any of this. This picture is more like expression how lonely the person feels most of the time. Is seemed to me she can’t get out her loneliness and she could not get out of it. The only person who could help didn’t and now is too late. And the only person who can understand the meaning of this postcard is just one. But she didn’t want him to feel guilty about it and she kept this secret for her self.
2 comments:
I think the cultural distinctions you're making here are really interesting. You do a good job of trying to understand from an "outside" perspective why Americans are so invested in sporting competitions, etc. The conclusion you come to is, I think, and appropriate one--that it's not so much the unattended sporting event that's important to this person as the loneliness they are trying to convey. The swimmeet just serves as an experience or event on which to focalize that emotion, and in this sense there is something universal about the meaning of the postcard.
I would have to say I agree with what you say when you talk about not understanding why people cared if they didn't come to your sporting event. I felt the same way but not because they didn't come. My dad came to most all of my baseball games, and most of the time I didn't want him there. My last year in high school he stopped coming however and I really missed him. I now undertand why people felt this way. What you said was very insightful.
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