The object of the game…

Hello world. The following was written 8/27/2018.

I was watching a video of a comedian sharing their thoughts on an article they had read about participation trophies. They also shared their belief as to what sports are for and how the object of the game is to win. You can’t always win. Yet, you have to go into it believing you will. They then shared how they want to see their children cause another to cry when they loose a game. I found myself responding to them with the following.

My response, “Something to consider brother, everything we experience is for our benefit. There are no good, bad, right, wrong, win or lose if everything is of benefit to you. Each experience has lessons within them you are to learn. Part of the learning is to discern how you are the one in judgment of what is being experienced by you and YOUR children. You will judge what they experience as you would judge yourself and your own.

We are taught to blindly follow and believe what our families have chosen to believe. We are taught we are to conform to their beliefs if we are to be accepted and approved of. When we do not conform we are faced with judgments, recriminations and punishments. In this same way we are trained to conform to the dictates of society. If and when we do not conform we are punished.

We do to our children what has been done to us unknowingly brother. Our families were indoctrinated to think, believe and perceive as they do by being taught they are to blindly accept, follow and believe anyone who…