Have you ever competed on a radio or TV show call-in contest to answer a question or email in ‘the word of the day’?
Prizes usually range for T-shirts, which I once won on a radio show about sports trivia to inclement weather battery TV sets to medium to major bucks and anything else you could think of, but those I have never had the pleasure yet of winning!
No entry fees involved and major networks and stations are usually discreet with any personal info that they glean from your signing up with them.
As small children we are tested daily within the realms of friendships and school chums, competitive sports or grades, debates, you name it and it appears to be never ending being tested for all our worth!
Competition in business and life is good for your soul.
It makes you want to try and be the best you can be; or teaches you camaraderie with your fellow humans in how to get along.
But, the word “contest’ itself is a contradiction in just being a bit of confusion; let’s examine it in its two syllables… ‘Con’, is a prefix that can mean many things: with, or for, as a stand alone word it can mean: swindle, defraud, rip off, cheat, do, convict, prisoner, jailbird, negative, disadvantage, minus, objection, deceive, hoodwink, trick, mislead, dupe, pull a fast one, inveigle, sweet-talk, trap, entrap, draw or take somebody in, and lastly, to lure!
Mostly the word is not so nice, hmm?
‘Test’, means an exam, experiment, investigation, check, analysis, assessment, trial, ordeal, hardship, adversity, suffering, tribulation, or to try, try out, and assess.
Anyway you do it, it seems to me as a difficult proposition, hmm?
But one that many covet for their own and try very hard to come out on top to win!
Human nature, to do all of these things, in our lifetimes is something that we should all enjoy as part of our commonality.
No matter where you come from in this world many will express how they compete in one area of their lives or another…
Even as simple as finding that special parking spot, or first in line at a store or what-have-you…We as a people of the planet are inborn to compete in all things great or small, which is a contest in itself.
Very few will admit that they were in the middle of the line, but mention first or last and you will most definitely know that those two polar opposites create emotional responses!
Fascination with us as a race of humans, studying this is so easy to do, just relax and watch and listen.
We are all not so different we are more alike than any other living thing.
Observations of behavior are also like an experiment of the most simplistic of cause and effect…
We are all drawn into things with our curiosities, sometimes getting the best of us… but what else can we do?
Brilliance is an act of examination and stepping back and studying.
Keeping your mouth shut is how to do this the best.
NO WONDER I HAVEN’T LEARNED AS MUCH AS I COULD HAVE, WHY YOU ASK?
I know you didn’t but I will tell you why, anyone who knows me, knows that I have never learned how to listen!
But I do enjoy researching and reading and hopefully from reliable sources that won’t compete with me, since they would lose!
Lose what? You so boldly ask, why to try to get a word in edgewise…
SINCE I HAVE BEEN THE WINNER OF… OUT TALKING MOST EVERYONE I HAVE MET! TA DA! The best anyone has been able to do is talk at the same time as me…Sadly, there are no prizes in this competition, well, I suppose there is, being left alone to think more, all by yourself…
Many wish for ‘alone time’ and now I have given to you the recipe to get it!
On that bit of silly allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and to share your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
Monday, November 7, 2011
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