The Bone Cage- Self/ World Relation

This book I can easily relate to because I am an athlete myself, maybe not at that level but I also love to compete in sports. I loved reading this book because I always wondered what went through Olympian athletes minds- How they felt before a race or if they really wanted to be training that hard. I found that in order to become an athlete at such an elite level, you really want to put your life into it and you got to love it. There are so many people today that dream to become NHL or NFL players, but to become an Olympian is something very different. A person today will have the skills to become an athlete in the NFL but if someone told them they weren’t going to be paid- more than half would decline the offer. Everything today is about money. People think of how rich the professionals get, not the fact that they want to train hard to become the best. (Maybe 2 out of 20 would think that) This is not the case for Olympians in my opinion; and I’m talking Canadian Olympians. They get paid barely any money to put their life on hold to train harder than any athlete in the world so they can represent our country. They clearly don’t do it for the money; they do it to become the best and because this is something they are passionate about. I have always thought this and after reading The Bone Cage it just inspired me even more to continue doing what I love- running.