Winning and Losing

    We want to be champions of our own stories. Sometimes we are the goats, the losers. Overall, we wish to be the heroes of the arcing narrative, from beginning to end. Birth to death, we wish to be the protagonists. 

    Sometimes we are the enemies of our own stories. We can ruin our own paths. But the point is to eventually overcome and be the winner.

    In life we can have regrets and embarrassment in past trials and blows, times where we failed. But did we recover and come back, stronger, wiser, better than before?

    Through faith in higher powers that works.

    But in reality we can fall and not recover so well.

    When we disappoint our parents, our teachers, our bosses, our children, our spouses.

    When we see a light or a spark or a smile of love and acceptance that was once there but it has gone away.

    We try to get it back.

    To win, to prevail.