Value of Sports in Life

Past few weeks I have seen many sports being played all around the world. In my opinion, a sport is an organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful activity requiring commitment and fair play. We learn about sportsmanship, teamwork, and work ethic. Sports play an important role in everyone’s life. It requires lot of effort and practice to be a good sportsman. I believe that participating in sports activities can teach value and life lessons that one can use in life. Behind every sportsman, coaches and parents play an important part. Their guidance and reinforcement will build character instead of creating character.

Leaders are not born they are made and they are made just like anything else, through hard work.

Value of sports is very important. Sports teach us lot of things in life. First is Discipline. Sports can teach a child discipline in a practical way, to learn the skills and maximize performance. It teaches us to do hard work and reach our potential. It also teaches us Sacrifice. There can be instances that one needs to give up in order that someone else will contribute better for the team.

The difference between impossible and possible lies in a man’s determination.

Sports teach us importance of our role in team and life. Single talent in a team cannot lead to victory and it is important in life to work with other’s talent too. It also makes us learn how to build and work in a team. Sports kept political difference aside. It makes us self-reliance and Motivated. It makes us prepare how to achieve goals. It makes us learn what planning to do before competing. Sports also teach us to become good coaches and mentor in one’s life. This is possible by the role of a father, coach, and friend.

Do not measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished by your ability.

Sports makes us know how to prepare and practice. Winning is not important always and sports teach us how to deal with success and failure. One can win only if he knows the taste of lose. This makes him striving for goals and result. Sports also teach us how to overcome adversity and temporary failures through situations faced during competition and in preparing for competition. Each one of us must play a single sport with complete dedication. This will create a better person inside us. It will keep us physically and mentally fit. Before doing any work in life, one must think of Never Giving Up.

Never Give Up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeed.

Earthship

Earthship is a type of passive solar house made up of natural and recycled materials. It is an organization, where people work as volunteer to build 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap and awesome to live in. Mike Reynolds who is the founder of Earthship Biotecture, a company that specializes in designing and building Earthships, started it in 1970. Mike wanted to create a home that would do three things; first, it should be sustainable architecture, using waste material to entire planet as well as recycled materials wherever possible. Second, the home should rely on natural energy sources, free from electrical, and water lines. Finally, it should be economically feasible for the average person with no specialized construction skills to be able to create.

Mainly the walls of Earthship homes are designed by Tires and waste Bottles. These homes are successfully built in UK, Argentina, and Africa. This organization works with unskilled labor and mainly people volunteer to make such homes. They completely work on one aim i.e. Sustainability. There are many reasons that these homes are successful. When people hear about Sustainability, they usually picture primitive homes divorced from comforts of 21^st century. Earthships, offer all of the comforts of modern homes and more. Each home is outfitted with one or two greenhouses that grow crops year round, no matter the climate. One can feed himself with vegetables and fruits inside his home. Earthship home have water-recycling systems inside. Waste and Toilet water is again recycled for other use. Most brilliant piece of Engineering is their ability to sustain comfortable temperatures inside homes. Even in cold or blistering hot, Earthships constantly hover around 22 degree Celsius.

Solar panels on the roof and optional wind turbines provide the Earthship with all power it needs. One will never be short of power until one greedily chews electricity. It also provides complete freedom. With no bills and all basic needs provided in the home, one does not have to work a job just to survive. It is easy to build and Earthships are cheap too. The most basic cost is $7000 i.e. in maximum 5 Lakhs one can build a home with all facilities and with no bills for life time. In India, one home is already made in Rishikesh with name “Yogashram.” One can apply and work with this organization by clicking on this link “http://earthshipnetwork.com/.”

Earthships homes are made of waste and recycled materials. The structure is built with tires filled with dirt. The walls are created by placing plastic and glass bottles in concrete. There is a documentary movie, which tells how these homes are built, and what is the concept behind. The movie name is Garbage Warrior. This movie tells how Mike Reynolds struggle the law. The most powerful thing Earthship do is force people to think differently about how we live. If housing can be this awesome, and be beneficial to the environment, then what else can we change? What else can become simpler, cheaper, and better at the same time?

It is time for us to re-think of what we must consider normal.