Field Day

When I was a kid there was such a thing as competition. There was winners, there was loosers. If you were a looser it taught you to work harder to become a winner. Life wasn't fair, and it still isn't. People aren't always nice. It's all part of life and going through that stuff as a child prepares you for the future. I went to Bellas field day today and there was only one competitive sport. Tug of war. They did girls against boys, the girls one every time but once when a male teacher helped the boys.

Schools and sports at this age are only for fun, nobody wins, nobody gets first place. Because of this, the boys didn't know how to cope with loosing. They had probably never experienced it before. The boys cried, they yelled, they complained how it wasn't fair. One boy shoved a girl and it almost started a fight. We have done away with all this stuff because some where along the line people thought it was better. But is it really? What are these children going to do when they grow up and apply for a job and don't get it, but their friend with the same qualifications does? They won't know how to cope, they may get mad and retaliate against the company physically. Maybe by then it will be okay to file a lawsuit against the company for unfairness. People will have to watch their backs, always worried about a lawsuit or an attack, and isn't that what we are trying to do away with. It appears to me that maybe we are only making a bad situation worse. Isn't lawsuits and attacks on others just a different form of bullying. It seems the future will be bullied by the under dog instead of the top dog, but its still bullying. That's just my two sense on the situation though, where I see bad I suppose others are seeing good or they wouldn't do it this way. Anyway, even though there was no competitive sports events and no winners or loosers, it was nice to see Bella have so much fun at her field day!

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