Can we win if no one else loses? In our commercial, free-market capitalist society we are brought up to win and our victories are always measured against someone else’s loss. We have been brain washed to win when playing games, taking tests, practicing sports and other such activities that keep numerical scores. Once we’ve learned how to keep score we apply the concept to other activities in our lives that have no visible score: dating, dressing, driving, religion, jobs are all activities in which we compare ourselves to others in order to determine our obvious superiority. Thinner, fatter, more expensive, better label, pricier store, newer car, trendy, latest fashion, our society is based on comparisons that determine a winner. But there are enormous victories to be had at nobody’s expense, victories that require no comparison to others. A beach side sunset is just as splendorous when admired from the hood of a 15 year old clunker as from the deck of a Malibu beach house. The ability to enjoy the sunset and take pleasure in the moment is the victory not the Malibu deck.
You are not better than anyone else, your religion is not better than all others and your child is not the culmination of human evolution! But if you are happy, your religion brings you peace and your child is the love of your life, then your victory is all encompassing and permanent. All the comparisons and scores in the world could not take it from you.
Treasure the victories in your life that have no losers or comparisons, they are true and real.
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