Cracked Pot Meditations – Competition

Meditation for April 4^th, 2016

Competition

In all of us is a desire to be the best. We try to be smarter, faster, better than other people at what we do. If we can’t be the best, some of us don’t even try. Some of us are obsessed with winning. We will bend the rules to the point of breaking them to insure our win. If we lose, we reach for any excuse to prove that things other than just being bested thwarted us.

We as humans would rather compete than love. This is why the world is the way it is. From countries jockeying for economic supremacy and power to just a quick game of HORSE at the park, we are always trying to better someone else. We gamble, we play games, we play sports, we vote and we watch sports to fulfill our need for a winner.

Even when we talk about our own lives, it is listing all the things that either makes us better than each other or have more right to the worse life. IF we aren’t travelling to Europe for three years and marrying some awesome person, than we are listing diseases, divorces and our loved ones deaths to get the best sympathy.

We either try to find loopholes in the rules of life or we try to use the rules to our advantage. The only reason we follow law and morals is because it is the competitive thing to do. When someone bends or breaks those rules we are shocked. Someone who murders his wife and kids with a lawnmower is just breaking the rules in the game of life. It isn’t about the sadness. The right and wrong of life is the same as the right and wrong in a game of professional basketball.

We will hurt the ones we love just to have an edge and perhaps win at life. If you are in your bedroom under the covers because someone hurt your heart, it is because that person was trying to win and had to throw you down to get ahead. It’s like the fullback’s job in football is to run ahead of the running back and just clear the way. You just cleared the way for this person you loved to be a better lover for a person better than you. So be grateful to be such a team player!

We treat politics, art, religion, education, class, race and any other subject as a competition. It isn’t what’s right; it’s what’s better. If facts don’t sway you, then emotional opinions will. Political rallies use the same props as college sport games. We tear down ideas, personalities and institutions for leverage in the game of existence.

When someone is being nice to you it is because it is the best move they can make at that moment and will continue to do so unless it becomes a losing move. Your own family will disown you to win.

Prayer

Odin,

I must win this game.

I must or I don’t want to live anymore.

I would love to demolish my competition.

I want to soak the earth with their blood.

I will call every possible rule break and hope one sticks,

I will bend the rules to my favor as far as I can bend them,

I will connive and shit talk to psych them out.

I will pose and flare to make myself look bigger and stronger.

I will use mind and physical enhancement drugs.

I will threaten and mad dog to scare them.

There is no other point than to win.

Death before dishonor.

I will not sleep again if I lose.

Losing is the very thing that makes living not worth living.

This isn’t for fun.

This isn’t for learning.

This isn’t losing today to win another day.

This is the only thing that is important – to win.

Charles I,

Patron Saint of Losers,

I hate sports.

I hate people who like sports.

Sports are dumb.

I like smarter things.

I know I shouldn’t be so mean to sport fans,

I play a lot of video games.

I also love video poker.

I haven’t even tried.

If I can’t win right away,

I don’t try.

If I’m not perfect at it now,

Then I’ll never do it ever.

Since I can’t do it,

Then it isn’t cool.

Okay, sometimes I become a soccer fan during the World Cup.

But soccer is a smart man’s sport.

I haven’t played soccer since I was seven years old when it was always ties.

Because when kids grow up playing soccer they are taught that it isn’t about winning and this is why soccer isn’t popular in America.

It’s an excuse for a bunch of weaklings who grew up scared of sports to pretend to be sport fans.

But I will be indifferent to soccer as soon as the World Cup is over.

Premier league is too complicated and hard to watch,

And MLS is just super boring – even for soccer.

Once every few years, I’ll get into bicycle racing, curling and rugby.

I’ll go back to spending all my free time playing Candy Crush.

Amen

Craft

Getting bored with the standard games and sports? Here are some weird sports that will be fun and will make you look cool in these keeping things weird culture we live in nowadays.

Bo-taoshi – You’ll need 300 people divided in two teams and a telephone pole. While 75 of your teammates protect your pole, the second team of 75 will charge and attack the other team’s pole. The goal is to take the pole down to a 35-degree angle before the other team takes your down. This is a very physical and violent game.

Ferret Legging – The person who keeps a ferret in their pants the longest wins.

Fireball Soccer – The ball is on fire.

Potato Gun Tourney – You make a potato gun and win by shooting a potato the farthest.

Pumpkin Launch – Creating a device that will hurl a pumpkin the farthest.

Chicken Fighting Freeway – One person is on the bottom and another person is on the shoulders of the bottom person. They fight another two people who are also stacked on each other shoulders. They start on opposite sides of the freeway and charge each other trying to knock the other down and not getting hit by cars on the freeway.

Duel – Choosing between guns, swords, daggers, hatchets or spears. Fight to the death. Fun!

Goal

Everything is a competition no matter how much you don’t think it is. If you aren’t competing, then someone else is.

Try to win.