🏅 There are medals for participation
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I think the middle of the World Cup is the perfect time to revisit this one.
The capitalist world is obsessed with winning. Winning is narrowly defined as defeating everyone else. This is reinforced constantly by tough talking performance gurus who like to talk about how there are no medals for participation in real life.
Bull. Shit.
In pretty much everything that matters, participation is winning.
When you enjoy a beautiful meal with your family, who wins?
When you show up for a friend in need, who wins?
When you sort out your eating habits and start exercising, who wins?
When you create something useful, who wins?
The winners are the participants.
And who was defeated? What a stupid question!
Why reduce life to cultural inventions of “winners” and “losers”? Joining in with your whole self – that’s where the juice is.
What if ostriches were the same height as frogs? Even if the frogs were very tall and wore glasses, that would be weird.
In the era of “skip to the good bit”, Mr Little Jeans dared to make a pop song with a 40 second intro that makes you wait until 1:10 for the chorus. Well done, Mr Little Jeans! (Spotify)
Grow slowly
Jeff
I like this and for someone to be a winner there has to be a competetitor and this is a never ending competition. One wins today but the race starts again tmrw.And well put to say that we are all winners bcoz tmrw may be someone,s day.