#64 “Just remember; you can’t win a pissing contest with a prick.” Verna McGrath - Wildcats 1986
Is life a contest? Is it an un-organized, up at dawn contest? Not the throw the ball through the wood cut-out dummy, or the knock out the pyramid of milk bottles type at a state fair. I mean, a get down, feet in the mud, pushing your limits, dirty contest. What contest have you won? Was it a hot dog eating contest, a pie eating contest? Or how about a first place ribbon in your high school's track and field competition? Did you win the contest because you had to?
Life is about creating contests that have a winner and a loser.
We don't set up contests to make people lose, we set up contests to make you win. If you are against your closest rival, or if you are up against you best friend; contests keep you in reality check mode. Contests become a part of your everyday reality unfortunately. When you pick up a ball, do you think; how far can I throw this? When you pick up a girl, do you think; how far can I take this? Life is about those contests. The underdog sometimes wins the slotted victory spot, and sometimes those leaders may just lose.
As life exudes contests in physical aspects, and even emotional aspects; we have to know that getting up each day is a contest to win something.
Whether that be more time, more energy, more attention, or just more opportunity. As I encounter each obstacle in the day, I view the other components of competition as mind games. I outweigh the wit with choice. I outweigh the risk with reward. As you push yourself emotionally and physically each time you are in a contest; you wonder what it is that is pushing you when you are competing?
If I contest to the fact that there are pricks in this world; am I contesting the idea that someone may not be a prick , but just a great competitor?
I one up you, you one up me. We throw the ball, then it comes back. We get victory when we deliver, we get loss when we stop paying attention. I want to win a pissing contest; hell, I want to win every contest; but, I am not going to win if I can't recognize that it takes practice. Practice comes with will; it comes with pushing your limits. Life comes with some lemons, life can be sour. But there is also the smell of rain and sweat. If you don't get your feet in the mud at some point, you just lost the contest against someone who already has. You won't feel the sweat run down your face, and you won't taste the salt of victory.
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