This post started with a bit of pondering about athletes and the tiny little tragedies that can permeate all our lives.  I know some people, followers of mine included, hate the idea of anyone ever feeling sympathy for a celebrity.  I guess because they are rich or famous and that should be a salve for any issues?  I would like to think that empathy is an enviable trait though and we should all en devour to feel for our fellow humans when they suffer.  Athletes I feel suffer in a very specific way that is to me, one of those small tragedies that in turn can mirror something we all slowly deal with, just more pronounced and sudden.  Sports have long functioned as a great metaphor for life, it’s why writers have always loved writing about it.  The thing is athletes get old way before we would consider someone old.  Football players are lucky to make it to their mid 30’s before being washed up, tennis players are too old to win by 30, and gymnasts, especially female gymnasts?  They’re old at 20.  A few recent events have me thinking about this, most of us can at least convince ourselves our best days are always ahead of us.  I may not have as much energy as I used to by maybe I have a great love story unfolding just around the corner, fabulous wealth, something.  I can imagine life is one upward motion even if it isn’t.  But what if I was the best in the world at something (something besides this.  Let’s be honest, no one in the world is better at talking about who I want to fuck than me.  I’m a bit of a prodigy when it comes to my own libido).  Nastia Liukin was the best in the world at one point, she won the medal to prove it.  The best.  That has to be an amazing feeling but.. she was 18, she will never be the best again, she’s too old.  While I have no doubt life holds many pleasures for her athlete is what definite most athletes, they dedicate way more time to that than most of us have ever dedicated to anything.  That’s over now.  That has to be a hard road to travel, to be 22 and know that your best days doing the thing you did best, they are done.   It was heartbreaking to see her look like she wanted to cry when she failed at the Olympic trials. So I was thinking about that and just how hard it must be.  Which is a pretty meloncollie thing to write about and you’re probably wondering why I am even mentioning it.  Well, I was thinking about it and then I started thinking about Nastia Liukin, who no matter what is still really hot.  And really flexible and really athletic. So yeah, I went from thinking about that to instead thinking about just how attractive she is.  This is how my train of thought works and I still feel bad for her and the human condition can indeed be awful but you know something that makes it all better and so often worthwhile?  Sex.  Sex is great and so is Nastia Liukin and guess what?  Today I want to fuck Nastia Liukin.