Tuesday, August 20, 2013
No winners and No losers
The first concept the Angels would like me to share with you is the following: There are no winners and there are no losers in life. We just are.
A couple of weekends ago I played a game pool with friends. I never get the ball in the hole on the first, second, third,.....sometimes 10th try. I do not have a natural affinity for the game. However, it's a great way to spend time with friends. I just try to have fun. I don't keep count, I move the ball, punt the ball, and we all end up laughing in hysterics. One individual with us is competitive in nature. I never would have guessed that the way I play pool would make someone so angry. This individual told me that I was "ruining everyone else fun." Yet, everyone else was laughing and having a good time. I said, "We don't have to be the same. It's Ok". The shock on his face told me he didn't understand. But it was a day of fun, not a day of trying to explain to someone my view. Luckily the issue was dropped and everyone enjoyed the remaining game.
The larger issue in the picture is not how well I get along with people. It is about the socially created concept of Winning and Loosing.
My generation includes kids born in the 1980's and before. We were the kids that joined team sports and other competitive events to "win". Society tells us that there are Winners and Losers. Society also makes the implication that if you can Win in one event (score the most points based on a human system of tallying) it means you Win else where in life (have the most socially desirable car, job, spouse, kids, etc) and ARE more desirable to others. Society also implies that the Losers (those not being able to rack up enough points, or barely able to play the game) are also Losers in life and seen as less desirable humans. All these implications play off of the human ego. Not the spirit of God.
The generation of the kids born in the 1990's and beyond were raised differently. Their sports and competitive events include everyone Winning. Everyone gets a trophy for competing. Everyone is equally a Winner. While this attempt to take a positive spin on competitiveness is better on their budding egos (or at least for the kids who don't Win and feel sad)....it is no more accurate to the spirit of life than the Winners and Losers of my generation.
We simply just ARE. We are souls having a human experience. The Angels continually tell me that no one person is "better" or more deserving of love, food, and shelter than another. The Angels tell me that all humans, in Gods eyes, are the same. The Angel continually remind me that we should treat each other as such. The Angels show me visions of a type of Utopia- how they want us to be living. This vision is far off from where we are now as a society. Yet in our world today many "primitive" tribes live on a similar system of equality. This brings up many questions. Why did our society become so object, ego, obsessed? Why do we assign Winners (those who get big houses, BMW's, Caviar every night) and Losers (sleeping on the streets, eating out of garbage cans) to other humans? In fact, why do those in the middle become obsessed with the Winners? Americans watch hours of reality TV every day based on The Real House Wives or Monster Brides. Imagine if those same people put that much time and energy into the homeless and hungry? Our society's focus is on "More More, Bigger Better". This is not where God wants it to be. God wants our focus to be on all humans having a loving peaceful time on earth.
The Angels have asked me to explain where this competitiveness started and why.
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