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Debate: Sports are as important as studies
Imagine yourself, wearing heavy-lens spectacles, having a bent back, a bald head, failing health and falling teeth, only at the age of twenty. Scary, isn’t it? Even the thought of this dreadful situation could take your breath away. But it could happen to you! Remember that famous line: All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
Who would want to become Jack? But we still see many like him in schools and colleges. They are the ones who have never taken time out to smell the roses and enjoy the beauty of life. The only things that ever attract them like a magnet are books. They are seen lost in books forever. What they gain out of this could only be told by them.
In the final analysis, everything is measured in terms of profit and loss. I don’t find any gain in taking up studies as one’s only aim in life. In my opinion, it is an endless process beginning with infancy but it just simply doesn’t end. To illustrate my point of view, I may quote here a revealing story:
A young man was travelling in a bus in London. Seated by his side was a grey-haired old man. He asked the young man as to what he was doing. The young man replied, “I have just completed my studies”. And then inquired from the old man as to what he was doing. The old man replied, “I am still studying!” Do you know who that old man was? He was no less a person than Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest philosophers of his age.
As for myself, I am not going to become Bertrand Russell, at the cost of grey hair and old age and what would one get out of it? An ordinary job for a few thousand rupees! I pity myself who at the age of four was sent to school with the school bag hung by my neck. Its weight continued to grow double in the succeeding classes and later it had grown thrice my own weight.
One would rather prefer to become Mike Tyson who knocked down his rival in just two seconds and do you know what he got in return. I am sure your collective calculators would fail to cipher out the correct figure, which we would not be able to earn in the next 64 years. I being a girl, can neither become Tyson nor Jahangir Khan but can certainly become Steffy Graff. I would then be in possession of enormous wealth, which would further enable me to earn fame and fortune and most importantly, it would help me retain my health. As it is said: “Sport is a preserver of health”.
I am not saying that we should completely forget about our studies. But we should give equal importance to sports along with our studies in order to learn to control our anger, to develop sportsman spirit and to face the challenges of life courageously.
Sport is the very fibre of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive. — Franklin Delano Rooseveltt
So the next time you feel passionate towards studies, just keep this piece of prose in your mind. It will help you maintain a balance.
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