I've gotta feeling...

Hey guys! I'm posting my composition about sport, from page 129.

The feeling brought by sport

There is a growing tendency today of worrying about health and keeping fit. It is true that the cases of overweight have never been so many, however it is also true that our beauty standards are different from the ones we had before. Just by taking a look in a painting from the Renaissance we can notice that by that time man appreciated chubby woman. And you don’t even need to go that far: the pin-up girls from the 1920’s were a lot curvy. Nevertheless, today the girls that appear in TV and magazines have zero fat, just muscles. And the girls from fashion runways… sometimes just the bones! Having said that, it’s easy to understand why is the pressure for having a perfect body so on nowadays.

In addiction to that, sport has been also recognized for its importance when it comes to health itself, once it was already proved by science that people who exercise regularly improve their life quality and tend to live better and longer, avoiding illnesses like heart attack, strokes and stress.
Sport can also be seen as a kind of entertainment, for people who practice it and even for those who enjoy watching others playing. Some sports can reach a high difficulty level, so people who are able to play them well are, in a way, worshiped. And today this phenomena has reached a great proportion. An common example are the cereal boxes from the United States: they don’t come with pictures of mathematic geniuses, TV presenters and not even popstars. Who appears there are sportsmen such as basketball and football players.

It doesn’t matter if it’s teamwork or individual achievement, the fact is that we are a lot influenced by sportspeople. The ability of swimming well or dealing well with a ball for many times beat other abilities like singing, and dancing in terms of popularity. Basketball players can become as famous as Hollywood actors. Handsome soccer players are as harassed as models. The key for their success if probably the fact that their activities are seen as more difficult and less glamorous than others like singing and acting. This way, people end up feeling closer to them.

The American politician Earl Warren had a very interesting quote: “I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures”. Well, we can’t deny that sport has also its disappointments… But the difference from the other disappointments lies, for example, in things such as the following sentence, said by the supporters of a particular Brazilian soccer team: “The feeling can not stop”.

PS.: I am not a vasco supporter, let’s made it clear!!!!! Hahahha But my brother is a “sick” one, so I can’t help to get in touch with things like this. Anyway, I thought it was a good way to end the text… hahah