I felt that with Super Bowl XLIV coming up, what better time to talk about sports and competition than this week? What I found myself wondering was, why does everyone seem to love sports so much? What is it about them that makes us go crazy?
From a young age we learn that life is a competition and that we need to always try to be on top. Whether it is school and grades or sports, we are always trying to do the best we can and also better than the person who is better than you. It's not always about shoving it in the other person's face that you did better or that you are amazing, it is about that self-satisfaction feeling you get from doing the best. It's one of the best feelings when you know you are the best at something, and that is what sports athletes feel and that is why they play on a professional level. Obviously lots of athletes do it just for the money, but I believe there are those who still play because they love the sport and love that feeling they get when they are the best.
I think people love to watch sports so much not just because it is entertaining, but also because it gives us something to be passionate about and when our team is the best, we get the same feeling the athletes get when they are the best. Because our home team represents us, their success feels like our success. Now it always sucks to be the losing team, but that is another thing sports and competition teaches us, how to take a loss. Life is all about failing and overcoming obstacles so it's only natural for people to feel loss and fail during their lifetime. It's overcoming that horrible feeling that makes you a stronger person.
I personally LOVE sports, especially football, and I strongly believe that by playing sports, you can learn a lot about yourself and learn a lot of life lessons. Competition is something that has been going on in the world forever, whether it's a fight to the death between a hunter and animal or two male birds fighting to impress the one female bird, life is all about competition. We love it because it is entertaining, we can relate to it, it teaches us a lot, and most of all it is inspiring. Nothing is more inspirational than making that winning basket at the buzzer or the winning Hail Mary catch for the win.
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