I find it interesting that society frames trying and not succeeding as a “temporary setback" as if there is no value in the endeavor itself. For instance, those golfers were at the highest point in their careers and had achieved something amazing. But that is all discounted because someone else had done better. We have this notion that succeeding is all that matters.

Oddly, I almost didn’t write the article because I knew it would not be popular given the subject matter. “People don’t care about losing. It won’t get a lot of attention.” I am deeply trapped in the duality of win/loss.

We are obsessed with winning instead of living. We don’t value experience, we value what we get out if it. We don’t value work, we only what we can buy as a result. It is always about getting and never what we give. It is the tangible result, never the process. We love the art, not who the artist becomes.

I don’t know what I was really getting at with that article, I just know we are missing something. Thanks for weighing in on the matter and caring.