Reminder to self: Bronze
is best, we’ve known this for years.
Look at the hassle of winning a gold medal. Beautiful Gabby
Douglas, solid gold from the inside out, has a stunning performance and
glowing press about her world-class talent and smile one day -- and her every slip
and clutch documented in detail forever after.
Before the Olympics are even over, bloggers are talking trash about her
hair (Hilary Clinton should send an empathy bouquet) and the kid’s getting
grilled about her family’s shaky finances (please, she’s sixteen).
And apparently silver is worse, a miserable place to
be. Exhibit number one:
Best-in-the-world vaulter McKayla
Maroney’s face on the podium as she gets a silver, which apparently is very
typical of second-placers. Silver
medalists remember only one thing – whatever kept them from the gold. And we’ll help: tell someone you got second place and they
will ask only one thing: “what happened?”
But bronze. If silver
says “I lost,” bronze says “I went to the Olympics and got a medal!” You can put your bronze on the mantel forever
and be sure no one will ask what went wrong.
You went to the Olympics. Your performance merited a medal. You are one of the best, baby.
Life tip: quit
comparing yourself to others. And go for
bronze, you’ll be happier.
