Relevant Good Feeling:
Your team winning!
At the time of writing this, the World Cup final is in two days. Spain and The Netherlands are playing. For me, it is quite a beautiful situation. I love Spain, and I am Dutch. I am quite looking forward to it, though I do expect that the Dutch will win. Either way, however, I can claim that “my team” will win, and will be celebrating.
By the time you read this, however, the result will be well-known. Was I right?
On a semi-related note, I’d like to state something I’ve been getting wrong for quite some time now. “Holland” is not another name for “The Netherlands”. Infact, Holland is an area within The Netherlands. It just happens that Holland is far easier to say than The Netherlands. I suggest that there should be some shortening of The Netherlands that we can call it. I don’t know what it is, but perhaps there is such a word in Dutch; so hopefully some Dutch-speaking commenter can inform us of such. The Dutch even have an article devoted to the topic.
Though something interesting to note is that when you are guaranteed to have one of your teams win, it’s less exciting when they do. I suppose on the night I am going to need to pick a team, and that will be The Netherlands. I will say I am not a massive Roben fan; he works hard but falls over too easily. I suppose we can all agree that suspense is a critical component of enjoyment.
Todays feeling hopes to solicit within the reader the thoughts of a very suspensful game in which the result is not known or predictable, and in which the the winning thereof will be quite beneifical. I think we’ve all had a moment like this.
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