I shouldn’t allow a win or a loss of one of my favorite teams to dictate my mood. After all it’s just sports and there are way more important things to be worried about. For too long I hooked my identity to teams and their colors. So many of my friends do that and it can really impact their moods and attitude about life. I have gotten myself all worked up about a game that I felt let down by people who did their best in the arena of play.
People handle disappointment in different ways and adding the stress of sports to it all isn’t good. I guess it’s one thing about human nature we all have to deal with from ourselves and others.
Win or lose, life goes on. Sports is a part of life, it isn’t all there is to life. I can’t forget this. Maybe all sports fans can all learn from this.
Today is Monday and we are all getting back to work (except those who get today off because of Columbus Day or Canadian Thanksgiving). Holidays on Mondays mean three-day weekends for some which is awesome.
Today I created an exclusive friends list of people on Facebook I feel share my values and beliefs. Sometimes wide spread posts can create a hostile environment even among friends who really feel its necessary to assert in a heavy handed way their own agenda. Less is better in some cases. Sometimes you don’t want to have to defend your opinion with others, you just want affirmation. Social media can be a very great platform of expression and sharing, sometimes it can be a place that tears your soul apart. To make it a better place for me I shrunk my circle and I hope to be happier for it. Now this is in no way to slight others who differ from me but I just wanna be myself less filtered. You get what I am saying.
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