Life is a game of sports!!

Competitive by nature,

Making it a race to run.

You are in the race, by choice or by chance,

If by choice, you are always running it,

If by chance, the race wanted you to run in it.

Winning or losing may not be your belief nor in your agenda,

neither is participating,

Well, life makes its own decisions and you may have no choice in the matter,

Participate you will, to win or to lose.

Someone else’s loss leads to your win,

and your loss to someone else’s win,

Sometimes it is a ‘do or die’,

You always decide ‘to do’ but what is the outcome, is not in your control.

Not always do you want to win,

there are times when you want to lose,

It depends on how dear the outcome is to you.

Cheer you will,

for yourself and for others.

A question oft asked – should life be competitive? Can’t it be collaborative? Should there be winners and losers? Can’t we all be winners?

Well, life is many schools of thoughts,

There are no rights and no wrongs.

Scoring points is a part of the game,

the points needn’t be in numbers but in the way you play the game.

You play the game, the way that only you can play,

How others play it, is immaterial.

You are your own benchmark.. you are your own scoreboard.. you are your own refree.. you are your own medal.. you are your own trophy.. you are your own champion.. you are your own critique.. and you are your own cheerleader..

If you are all this, do you need anyone else to validate who you are??