There is a point in time in everyone’s life when everything that he or she has worked for boils down to that very moment- the last run for an athlete in the Olympics, the final jump shot before the buzzer goes off in a basketball match, the speech to deliver which determines the fate of one’s victory in an election.
Your heart beats faster than what you’ve ever felt before. Your hand trembles. You sweat profusely. You feel like the weight on your shoulders is too big of a burden. You feel like you’re not able to do it.
We’ve all had those moments, maybe not as much in comparison of magnitude to world movers and shakers, but nevertheless mean more to us than anybody else.
It could be the final exam which you have been preparing for the whole semester.
It could be the song you are about to perform in front of your friends for the first time.
It could be the girl who lives opposite your place.
We would have many of these moments in life. Many of which would not be remembered because we realized that it was not as hard as we thought it would be.
Then there is the one that gives you that itch on your body which does not go away, the one that you would remember years from now as the significant turning point in your life, the one that you remember as ‘the one that got away’.
