Being a winner is not everything

I have just been reading a BLOG about someone who watched a TV program about how to become a winner. They gave a short precis on what was learnt. It soon became a disappointment to me they had been given a load of psycho babble jargon and had sapped it up like meeting an oasis when the last drop of water had been consumed. They thought, it was because the TV program had given them an insight. When in fact it had actually just tapped into their own internal motivational need to change their life. I could equally argue why being a winner or making it your goal to be the best is a bad thing for both you and for society. A primary example of this can be seen in the way over zealous parents coach their children to be actors at the sake of everything else in life. The children grow up and then become to despise their parents. Or I could say, yes it is OK to be a winner but at what expense? Does it mean treading on others as you climb the social scale? Does it include lying or cheating? And if being first is really the most important thing in life, whatever happened to the fun? Fun and relaxing and being happy with yourself, your family your work. To me a winner would be someone who might well decide they could win a race if they wanted to run all out, but knew it was more important to one of the other competitors so they just let them win instead.

Oh by the way. I understand now in primary schools they give medals to all the children who enter races, regardless of what place they came in. And I bet they all have great big happy smiles and so they should, because we are all part of one race, it's the human race.