SHORT ESSAY ON SPORTS

"All work and no play

Makes jack a lazy boy"

  

Work, how ever interesting it may be, is always burdensome. Games provide us with a chance to get a break -through in the dull,., dry and drab routine of life. They give us entertainment as well as exertion. Without sports, life would lose much of its charm.

Longfellow rightly says: “As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so does change of studies to a dull brain" As a student, I need sports as much as I need food. The studious task of reading books, writing answers and memorizing formula renders me mechanical. Sports give me a blessed break in my studies. "Health is wealth" is an old saying. And sports keep us healthy. A bookworm, like a silk worm, licks away books and finally the books lick him away. Youth is a time of energy. S.T, Coleridge, the famous Romantic poet, describes his youthful potential by saying that his body was:

Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore

 On winding lakes and rivers wide

 That asks no aid of sail or oar

  That fears no spite of wind or tide

Young boys want to exert power. If they are deprived of a chance to show animal spirits, they give vent to their potential in wrong ways. So games must be played in colleges and schools. Girls should not be neglected here. They may be allowed to play indoor games like badminton, skipping, swimming etc. Different games impart different skills to the players. “Football is by power, hockey by trick, cricket by chance" Thus every game gives different training to the players. In general, all games teach sportsman spirit. The players learn how to accept challenges, follow rules, obey the captain, and accept the umpire's or referee's decisions. The players learn how to accept defeat and digest victory which so much matters in life.

On a larger scale, sports ensure interaction between different nations, their cultures, languages, dishes, heroes and histories. Thus players introduce a country in the world. They are the ambassadors of a country. Sports bring a lot of foreign exchange also. There is a wise saying “All people are good except those who are idle". Because “An idle mind is the devil's workshop" a game "teaches through delight" and trains the youth through healthy competitions.