She had tears in her eyes and I wondered why?

She was standing with her head held high finding it very difficult to keep her jaw intact, her teeth were moving up and down in quick succession, effortless tears occupied every inch of her face. She was shivering fiercely but held herself firm in the honor of the moment.

11th Aug, 2012- “See, this is the feeling which is worth it” said my roommate, both of us sitting far from home watching the telecast of London Olympics after a strenuous day's work.

Ethiopian Meseret Defar produced a home-stretch sprint to claim victory in the 5000 m event and timed it at 15 min 04.25 sec.

As per the tradition the national anthem of the country which got gold was played at the London Olympic's stadium. Ethiopia, an African country was lesser known.

She was literally overwhelmed as if in those 15 minutes, she lived her life. She was the most admired girl of the evening wearing her country flag as the whole stadium stood and saluted.

But did this all come in just 15 minutes? Or was it an endeavor of a life time? How much time she would have invested in the reckoning? How much youth and emotions had she sacrificed?

And yet in that single moment of watching your country's flag- celebrated, it was all worth. To know that tonight you may be the reason of a million smiles back home made it all justified.

She converted it all into gold which was pure than 24 carrots. (Truly an alchemist)

As I switched off the light, I could not help but ponder; is that single moment in people’s life that beautiful?

To the ones of her kind – It’s just a matter of time.