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It
looks like nobody has been competing in sitting so far.
Strange, for sitting needs an effort and force, too. Keeping the body is a
certain position, not always comfortable, or comfortable
in the beginning and then really tiring and exhausting,
is not that easy. Of course, it would be quite difficult
to indicate who was sitting the fastest, though
extremely interesting – just to define the speed of
sitting can be a real challenge, taking into account the
simple fact that in this very case fastest does not mean shortest (the fewest amount of
seconds or minutes) like in the running. In the sitting a distance
is not a space, but a time, so the following bizarre
question should be asked who sat the fastest the
distance of twenty minutes? . . . . It would be much
easier to indicate who was sitting the longest – however
here longest would be the counterpart of furthest in the running. Or: who was sitting the
longest? would mean the same as
the question: who ran the longest
distance? who reached the furthest point running? . . . . With no doubt supporting would be difficult, if possible at
all, especially when the
competitors should sit motionlessly – the sitting in
motion would be a bit less boring, but only a bit.
Certainly, a lot would depend on what the competitors would be sitting on (as well as
in front of, or behind, what, however not that much) –
here the imagination seems to have no limits...
Sitting down is a different kettle of fish. Yes,
absolutely. For example: to sit down in right order on a few dozens of numbered chairs scattered
chaotically. Or: to sit down a hundred times on a
rocking chair (and then keep rocking). Or: to sit down
on the ground, legs stretched straight forward and
touching the ground with calves and thighs.
AND
SO ON. And so on. And so on. And so on...
The opinion
that the sitting does not contain an element of
competing is wrong. It has been well known for very
long that there are two kinds of competing: against
the others and against oneself. Even if it is hard to
notice the first one in the sitting, the other one can
be seen (and experienced) easily, and its level can be
higher than in many other sport disciplines. Just sit
to the end, sit through, when the whole body is aching
and going numb from the tips of the toes to the
hairs on the pate, and the mind, sometimes called a
soul, is suffering and stiffening even more...
Nevertheless, trying to follow the Olympic motto faster
higher stronger we choose
without any hesitation faster. With no doubt higher and stronger are more attractive. Which one of us wouldn't like
to sit the highest. Which one of us wouldn't like to
sit the strongest. Yet we count on faster. We love preposterous absurd abstraction, don't we? |
