What kind of errands....
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What kind of errands....
| Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm |
Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?
I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?


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But where QM and I disagree is that she thinks that the only enjoyment is in the goal of winning.
I don't think the only enjoyment I get, or others get for that matter, is only in the goal of winning.
FTR..I don't believe I've ever disagreed with QM that winning is enjoyable.
I do disagree however with the idea that it's the *only* thing that makes a competiton enjoyable.
You can lose and still have fun.
Sue
ITA. My son played T-ball games in the spring. There were two teams, no real positions, and each kid got to swing till he or she hit the ball off the tee. It was hilarious. The kid would hit the ball, and all 15 kids in the field would go chasing after it, sometimes fighting over it. It looked more like soccer or basketball than baseball.
It was a game. There were clearly rules. An inning was defined as the time it took for each kid to hit the ball. Each batter got to run the bases after each hit, no matter what the fielders were doing. Teams alternated between fielding and batting. Coaches tried to keep the faster, scrappier players from fielding all the balls, in order to give everyone a chance. Those are *rules.* It was a game.
Heck, I played "drunk softball" once in high school, where the rules were mostly about taking a sip of beer when your guy struck out, or when your pitcher walked someone. That was a game, too.
But I don't think someone who literally can't recognize conversational speech on a debate board is going to get this.
No. You don't get that there are choices besides try-to-win and try-to-lose. Running races are a perfect example. Do you really think that the 30,000 people who run a Marathon, or the 10,000 who ran in the Corporate Challenge with me last year think they can win? It's not about winning. Most runners race just for the fun of it. We went to the Boston Marathon last year, and my sons handed out water to the runners. It was Mile 18, they were exhausted, but clearly exhilarated. It was magical. And *none* of the people we saw had a chance in heck of winning. We didn't even get there till hour 3.5.
You, of course, are a superstar athlete, but for the vast majority of us, sports competitions are just excuses for training. 99% of the people playing a particular game are just hoping to do better than last time, or just using the game as a reason to do the workout every day. If you're not a bookie or a gambler, why on earth would you care what the results are?
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