You lost, get over it, suck it up for god’s sake!
Why has losing or finishing second become such a difficult reality to accept these days?
I don’t recall it being that way in the past.
I remember winning as well as having my share of losses and defeats.
Yes winning was glorious, and losing hurt, sometimes a lot,
but I licked my wounds and got over it.
No things were not rigged against me.
More often than not the loss was for a reason;
better opponent, poor effort, too many mistakes or it just wasn’t my day.
The umpire wasn’t out to get me,
the teacher did not review my work in an unusually harsh way,
the girl of my dreams didn’t walk away with the sole purpose of seeing me broken into many pieces, and no there has never been any evidence that the world was out to get me!
I just lost, took it on the chin, met defeat, missed out…..really as simple as that.
Was this just my experience or isn’t this the way things really work,
good days, bad days, great successes, terrible setbacks.
Who has it any different?
Maybe the wealthy, powerful, influential, egomaniacal, deluded?
Is that why the thinking is that they have the right to ignore this basic fact of life.
Perhaps, it’s because they have found the truth,
that their beliefs and world view is better than ours.
Or maybe they they were just raised raised that way………..you never give in, you never accept or admit defeat,………..it is shameful and embarrassing.
It was win at any cost, in any way you can and espouse to all those around you that you were always the best and everyone knew it.
Victory is just something that has to be with you because you are you.
And when that self-deluding truism of your life is challenged by the basic truism of what our experiences are really all about, then something is wrong and it is for sure not you…….. that just can not be.
Of course, in your heart you know it can, but that notion is hidden too deep and only surfaces in those fleeting moments of weakness.
What rises to the surface so quickly is that you are ordained, winning is just something that always happens, to you at least.
So acceptance that you really fucking lost is not a consideration, because it has never happened to you, and it just doesn’t fit the projection.
Remember, it was win, at any cost, regardless of what you had to do or who went down in the process
It was always the ends justifying the means……..a truth that you always stood by.
I like to think back what it must of been like for you;
A “ B or C” instead of all A’s,
a bronze or silver medal instead of gold,
mediocre SAT scores,
not making the all-stars,
the family endowment that you knew really got you into that school,
the dirty tricks along the way to stay on top.
All this in the shadow of the expectation that you should and would always win,
the dread and fear of dad’s expressed disappointment and embarrassment over
your short comings.
The reminder of what is expected without any exceptions or excuses.
Fortunately, for us at least, you and your ilk represent a minority of people growing up and having grown up in this society.
But, I fear this is changing.
What bad examples you have set in your Machiavelian pursuit of wealth, power, and influence.
Those poor, weak souls who know of only your results and not how you got there.
Those who came to believe that they were also ordained, and deserving whatever it took.
Because of you and your kind we are raising a generation of wannabes and poor losers who have not comes to terms with how things really are for the vast majority of us.
Losing is no longer something that they are willing to accept;
their fate is not their doing,
yes, the system is rigged,
damn straight there are those who are out to get them and keep them down.
An easy projection to make in the face of helplessness and failure.
And easy to make when there is a messenger who has been able to undermine a
basic fact of life.
Life is just not unfair, it is particularly unfair to you because of who you are.
Yes the umpire purposely made bad calls when you were at bat,
You never could catch a break when all those undeserving people seemed to
always make out.
Your teachers and school sucked,
others always had the advantage.
All of the above as to why you have and are finishing out of the money.
Like many wannabes, you have not grasped what it takes to get over that hump.
So it becomes I lost again and I am tired of this crap.
And so when the message is you don’t have to lose,
you can just win regardless of the real outcome,
the world seems just a bit brighter.
A light that you have rarely seen appears on the horizon.
Screw it, I won and you will not rip me off again.
This time I see you trying to take victory from my hands……..and no more you say.
You and the others like you in this deluded state are ready to turn things upside down.
Fuck what life’s experiences are really like,
we like it better this way,
feel better this way,
and will make you succumb to this new reality, as twisted as you think it is,
as much as you resist and refuse.
We do not care about your sense of legitimacy,
we care that you no longer have it your way,
that this time we win, you lose.