BuzzFeed Community TeamImagine this: It's winter 2018. I had finally arrived in front of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Village gates, my dream since age 7, and immediately felt two good things and two weird things: excitement and wonder, but also bitter cold and uncertainty...should I have chosen a summer sport instead?I had just stepped off the cozy bus that had taken us across the Korean countryside, from Seoul to PyeongChang.
I then strapped my somehow 30-pound ski boot backpack on and balanced my 45-pound ski bag on my right shoulder, now making me 75 pounds heavier. That weight wasn’t even counting my everyday clothing in my other bags that I somehow had to carry through the three layers of high Olympic security to get to my dorm. I quickly thought back to my track and field days, when all I needed were track spikes, a shirt, and shorts to compete.
Although I was just starting to experience the first few minutes of my lifelong goal, the Winter Olympics, the place I had dreamt of starting at age 7, I began to wonder, during those first few minutes in the Olympic Village, if I should have dreamt instead of competing on the beach rather than the snow, on a sunny track rather than the in chilly mountains, or in a sport that didn’t require to carry almost the weight of another person in equipment to compete.
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