Detachment:

Is being detached a bad thing? Being told you have to think only about yourself up until the next Olympic Games is that a bad thing? What happens when that Olympic Games is over does the cycle stop or does your brain only know how to function under only caring about itself? I am not a selfish person, but I do have selfish tendencies: While focusing on something athletic I can care less about what is going on in the real world. While cooling down from a hard day’s work gossip is the last thing that strikes my interest. Playing a sport where everything relies on me and the countless hours I had put in preparing for the competition I see myself only caring about what happens to me instead of what happens to others out there.