"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life."
Those wise words belong to Chris Evert, the great tennis player. But, they have general application in all area of life, not only in tennis. How we play shows some aspects of our character. But how we behave when we win or lose, shows the whole of it.
Like Bukowski said, it is interesting watching people from the distance. Perspective is the mirracle as it gives you an opportunity to see so many layers of behaviour and how easy some people let them to be trapped in the net of drama games that serve to support winning complexes. It is even funny to watch how some people do wrong things, missusing their position, or their profession or the opportunity just for the sake to make one more mark on their personal confidence, but on the cost of another’s integrity. The higher position, the bigger missuse.
In such situation I always feel more sorry for the trapped ones than I feel judgemntal for those who do it. Why? Because I do believe that Karma Law will do the job in this case. Life is a long race and in the end everything comes on the right place. Those who let themselves to be manipulated, watched, controlled and put in the position of guilt, those ones lose their freedom and their integrity for nothing. That is pittyful.
“Here too it’s masquerade, I find:
As everywhere, the dance of mind.
I grasped a lovely masked procession,
And caught things from a horror show…
I’d gladly settle for a false impression,
If it would last a little longer, though.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
William Joseph - Eternal
Written after a short visit of Magister Ludi.Great time in great company!
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