History technically adds up to two words: his and story which basically means ‘his story’. The word sportsman literally translates to either ‘a man who takes part in a sport, especially (but not necessarily) as a professional’ or ‘a person who behaves sportingly’. The person about whom this essay is being written can aptly match both the descriptions of the word. Therefore, the topic – ‘One Sportsman Who Created History’ in my understanding and interpretation translates to ‘A Sporting Sports Player Who Created His Story.’ Now, we begin.
His real name is Nischay Malhan. He has a YouTube channel on social media. It is called ‘Triggered Insaan’ and it mainly deals with comedy content such as commentary and social media challenges. It is insanely popular for its sense of wit and great broadcasting skills. Sometimes, he makes story time videos as well where he mostly narrates experiences from his life in an extremely interesting way. The essay is based on one of his videos about a certain sport he tried when he was in school titled ‘Winning in Not Everything (Storytime)’ which has over 6.5 million views at the present. When Malhan was studying in junior school, his teacher suddenly introduced ‘taekwondo’ classes to him. It sounded really fascinating. The interesting thing was that there were various levels in the game of taekwondo which were precisely represented by belts. Everyone started at zero (white belt) and had to make their way up.
The sport was definitely different but all the players including and especially Malhan kept putting their best foot forward. With a mixture of hard work, resilience and perseverance, he excelled and made it to the next level (yellow belt). One day, his teacher suddenly announced about the prospect of a match. It was happening in a nearby school called Maharaja Agrasen School as an annual taekwondo tournament. After diligently training for two to three months, Malhan felt full of energy and eagerly signed up.On the day of the match, all the participants were divided into two pools. There were meant to be two basic rounds and then a final round. Malhan, with a little practice and talent, easily won the first two rounds, therefore making it to the Finals. However, after the matches were over, he realized in horror that he was expected to compete against the champion of the school who was a red black belt (which meant he had been training for over a year) and was known for his flying kicks. Besides, he had also witnessed him defeating his classmate badly with one single kick.
He was obviously really scared and the two students who were expected to help him wear his chest and head gear tried to scare him into quitting which did discourage him even more. To top all that, a special announcement was made declaring that the final round would be the chief event at the end of all the competitions. This, in simple words, meant that over a hundred students and teachers would be watching him fight. Ten-year-old Malhan was facing quite a difficult choice. He knew that there was a great chance he would lose and face embarrassment. He knew that the other opponents who had played against his current opponent were hurt badly. The same could and would probably happen to him. He was also aware that if he, as a yellow belt player surrendered to a red black belt player, then everyone would understand. Some might even call it an intelligent or a practical choice. There was only one problem. Something in him just refused.He fought. He fought with all he had. He dodged. He hit. He kicked. He kept the fight going. Nobody could look at the two of them and guess that one of them was a Level 9 Player and another was in Level 2. It was clearly a fight of equals or that’s how it seemed to much of the audience. He did a really good job. He didn’t win.
He didn’t receive much spotlight or recognition. However, he did make history. He was a true sportsman. He kept up with his self-respect and self-belief, despite everyone who was advising him to quit, and gave his best. He chose to give his best and his opponent later admired him for the same. It was in his choices and in his hard work that he really won. It was never the scores of the judges. It is our choices that make us who we are. Our choices make up our current reality, our values, our metrics and our work ethics. Malhan chose to do what he thought was the best thing to do. That made him a winner and a sportsman who made history. That’s all.
