winning

Chasing Happiness One Win at a Time

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I enjoy watching YouTube videos. I watch replays of games where my team favs win. I rarely watch replays when they lose. That’s my way of punishing them for not winning all there games. The highly paid players don’t seem to realize that the outcome of the game determines my happiness. I can imagine how they talk at halftime when the outcome of the game is still uncertain.

Tony: “I had a rough night last night. The baby kept waking up and my wife and I took turns getting up. Let’s take it easy this half.”

Sam: “You know Ray’s happiness depends on our winning. If we lose, Ray will be unhappy all day..”

Tony: “What’s Ray’s happiness got to do with me?”

Sam: “Look at it this way. Unhappy Ray won’t watch the replay of our game. We get one less view and like. You know how the owners like us to get lots of likes.”

Tony: “Who does this guy think he is not giving us a like?”

Sam: “It’s better if he doesn’t watch the replay of losing game.”

Tony: “How so?”

Sam: ‘ He used to watch them and then he started adding comments in the comments section and they weren’t pretty. The sports talk show folks picked up on the comments and boom, one of us gets traded.”

Tony: “All this happens because we lose a game and Ray slams us in the comments?”

Sam: That’s the way it works.”

Tony: “I see what you’re saying. Ray’s happiness is my happiness. Let’s win this game I don’t want to move.”

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Think About It

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We give our hopes freely to sports teams. They may be teams in professional leagues, college teams, or national teams. We experience moments of euphoria when they win and moments of depression when they lose. We take losses personal. Players and coaches of winning teams are praised and players and coaches of losing teams are criticized. One thing I am certain, no player or coach wakes up thinking, “I want to lose this game/match.” They wake up filled with excitement for the competition. The competition is a good assessment of which team is the better team at a certain moment. Each morning when we enter our day normal people don’t set a goal of making the day the worse day ever. Every normal person wants a good day. As we work ourselves through the day we compete with the challenges that come our way. How we handle the challenges is our measure for the moment. When we fail, we only fail in that moment. If we get up and start over, learn our lessons, we may discover that we are victorious over our next challenge.

Something to Think About

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Winning streaks are great, but they don’t last. Losing streaks are painful, but they don’t last. We dance through life going through the good times and being hit in the gut by bad times. They happen. How we deal with them, both the good and bad, marks us with an indelible mark. It is the mark of character on our humanity. Did we handle the winning moments with grace and humility? Did we handle the tough times with courage, patience, and endurance? It’s never too late to change how we react. We don’t have to be what we were or are. We can be what we desire to become. 

Something to Think About

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Winning has it’s place in healthy competition. Competition challenges us to learn and improve our performance. When winning moves away from healthy competition it focuses on acquiring power, diminishing or destroying other competitors. One has only to look at the continuous political cycle. Political parties demonize each other. They conjure up false fears of what will happen if the opposing party comes into power. Each political group views itself as being the sole custody of the right answers for society’s problems. What would it look like if political groups worked together to benefit all of society? What would happen if political discourse became civil? What would happen if positions were presented without demonizing the positions of the opposition? We might end up with a more just and healthy society.

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