Softball Team

Our softball team lost both of it's game in a double elimination tournament today. We had a couple of battles losing the first game 11-6 and losing the second game 11-12 in a extra innings thriller. It was a solid team effort, we all had our spectacular moments and we all had our fair share of mistakes'. Lately I have pondered the difference between success and failure. It's so easy to get tied up in winning and losing in softball because when the games over we get immediate results, a Final score. I find myself continuously throughout my life believing in Final scores. It's really a place where I feel torn as a human being because winning and losing is a big part of life, but unlike sports, in my daily life I can't always see final scores. So it's much harder to decipher what I am losing and what I am gaining. I find myself wishing that their were final scores for everything because then I would simply know who I am, and where I stand. Just think if we really did have personal final scores already, would their be reason to change, would progress be made, we got the job done already and that's all that matters, right? Then how come I have walked away feeling empty from what seemingly was obvious success. You know, we lost the game today, but I felt more like a champion walking away from that field. So I will leave it to White Men Can't Jump. "Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs."