Winners and Losers - Freedom and Power

    The day after Indigenous Peoples Day, also known as Columbus Day, I have been thinking of winning, losing, winners, losers.

    Where do we find ourselves these days? Those of us who are not in debt: winners, more than losers, yes? Those who are debt, but have plans to earn their way out and be more prosperous than ever before? Winners, usually. Not always.

    Those who work in what they feel passionate about? Winners. Of Course, presuming that what you work in is a good labor. Not about cheating or stealing, or abusing others.

    Good work, good works. Prosperity, some call it.

    Are we healthy? Do we have our health? That is freedom and power, for sure. To breathe, walk, run, swim, not faint, to refer to some scriptures of the prophets of the Lord.

    Do we own things? Do those things have value? 

    Have we invested in good shares, or stocks, or funds that grow? Are we economically growing?

    Or are we in the red and losing value, or worse yet, do we live in Gaza Strip or West Tigray (Ethiopia), or parts of Ukraine or former Ukraine, and are threatened to be wiped out, crushed and starved?

    Who are the winners? Are the deported illegal immigrants becoming winners or losers? Will they value education more where they come from now? What will happen to the economies where they land?

    Who will win in the big fight of the U.S. government shut down?

    Does the party matter that much, or the ideas that they push, the laws that they enforce?

    Who are the winners and the losers in life?

    Do we have to win every day? Not necessarily. We can hold on some days or weeks and come off conqueror later...

    Patience and perspicacity, determination and endurance.

    Winning.