I nearly met Usain Bolt

[Anton Bruckner]

My neighbor is Jamaican and he is an ardent track fan. Before the Olympics started he told me that Usain Bolt was going to do well if he focuses. He then told me that Usain Bolt stopped by his house on his way to the Penn Relays earlier this year.

This morning on my way to the subway I was talking with my neighbor's wife. She commented that Usain and her brother in law actually stopped at my house and rang the bell thinking that my house was lot 351(their house) instead of 353. Of course I wasn't home.

Anyway summing up my almost meeting the fastest man in the world, my neighbor commented way before the Olympics that Usain was a carefree practical joker, (This is being played out right before our eyes) with great potential. He stated that if he ever focuses all the records will be history.

As for me, I paid lip service to my neighbors opinions because I believed there were typical Jamaican patriotic sentiments. In my heart I thought Tyson Gay was going to win.

Well that is my almost meeting Usain Bolt. As for me knowing myself, if I had actually met him, I simply would have given him perfunctory encouragement without believing he could have actually done it.

 

[Mushroom]

And he did it like nobody's business, didn't he? But only self adulation afterwards. No glory given to God. He does seem to enjoy himself, though.

 

[Anton Bruckner]

well he is still a kid. He is barely 22. Now the difficulty starts for him. All the women and the hangers on will try to get a piece of him. (Glory and Success is a double edged sword).

He needs to grow up quickly or else he will burnout and become washed up if he doesn't know how to handle it.

If he knows what's good for him, he will move to Iowa or Nebraska to train and live and have his parents live with him, hence not being influenced by the party crowd.

The only youngsters that I have seen who have been able to handle success are Lebron James and Tiger Woods.

 

[moral necessity]

It seems as if you were faster than him, for you weren't there when he showed up! Actually, the fastest guy ever was a baseball player named "Cool Papa" Bell. He was so fast, they say that he could get out of bed, turn out the lights, and be back under the covers before it got dark!"

Now, that's fast!

7 March 1991 - James Cool Papa Bell Passes Away