| And now what? What am I going to do without games, without tourists, without Judo and sailing, without Pyrros Dimas and Ian Thorp???
I turn on the TV and look for athletes, medals, games�Nothing�
The organizers thought of all possible scenarios in order to organize and complete the games in the best possible way and they did it. Nobody though thought of us! How difficult is was not to end the games so abruptly? Couldn�t they just give us a few more days? Couldn�t they end one sport per day and not all of them at the same time? Are they happy now that we are all depressed, miserable and lonely? Why nobody asked me if I want the games to end?
Maybe I am too sensitive�maybe it is because I am experiencing problems in my personal life these days�maybe it is because I had just started to understand the rules of Judo and had just decided to proceed to an IPPON (nock out movement in Judo) to anyone who will hurt me from now on�or maybe it is that even though I always felt proud and lucky of being born in Greece these games have made me feel that the Olympian Gods had good reasons for settling in this country�whatever is the reason I simply cannot accept the fact that now I have to go back to my ordinary, everyday life!
I refuse to return back to my previous reality, simply because I like the reality I experienced during the past month, it suits me more, it is the reality I was trying for the last years to explain to my foreign friends�it is Greece�it is my Homeland!
To all of you who were in the stadiums�to all of you who were stuck for one month in front of your television�to the amazing volunteers�to the unbelievable athletes who made us feel emotions that we cannot even describe�to all those who followed their hearts and traveled from around the globe to live the adventure�to the little boy who took us on a journey with his paper boat and the little girl who blew out with her breath the flame we all cherished�
See you Soon
Katerina Kourtessi
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