It seems like in today's society, kids feel entitled. They feel like everything should be handed to them, and they don't need to work for it.There are sports leagues where they don't keep score. The kids will play, but no winner, no loser. Everyone gets a "participant" medal at the end. There's no drive to learn from the mistakes of losing. There's no pressure to be the best that you can. There are winners and losers in every day life. I brought this up on my Facebook, and one of my friends really summed it up:
They are all "special snowflakes." Geez. If you don't learn to take disappointment and loss early, how do you handle it when you get into the real world, and you don't get the job you want, the promotion, and other things that just don't go the way you want. That's why sports and games are important at an early age.
So where am I going with this? I honestly have no idea. I guess the point, if there is one, that no matter what, you should always try to succeed, even when it looks impossible. I never thought I'd be at the part of my running, where in 7 months I'll be on my first half marathon. What? Hold on. Half marathon. That's like 13 miles or some crazy long distance. The longest I've run against the clock is 6. And wait, in 2016, I'm flying like half way around the world to Hawaii to run a full marathon? Yup I'm nuts. I want to take every step, no matter how painful, and learn from each one. To be come stronger. So when there is that disappointment, I can learn from it and get better. I've run races where I've done just "horrible", or so I thought. But then I look at the course. I look at who was all running. The weather. There's all sorts of factors. But just the fact that I got out there and tried, I've won. Yes, I've done well enough to receive a medal, or some other award, but that's not the point. What matters is each time I go out there I compete. I will only lose when I give up. When I stop there on the course, or worse yet, stop before I get there.
The school that only scored 2 points, they could have walked away from that game. They could have thrown in the towel. But they didn't. The fact that they continued to play a game that they didn't stand a chance to win shows a lot. They're winners in my book.
