Why Do People Want to Win

People want to win because the universe starts with heat. It was a dense, high pressure cooker of energy where everything was trying to explode, so that it can come into existence. And every person is a universe. In fact, every particle, every atom, every electron even, of our body, of every entity in this world, is a universe. And the nature of universe is that it keeps expanding. So the world keeps getting bigger. WE are getting bigger. Most things in the world have to go through a process of expansion, because not doing so is a step closer to death, and life is beautiful.

And in what way do we want to expand? I don’t know. Maybe by increasing the population of our species. Maybe by being beautiful. Maybe by loving someone. And we are built in such way that we are satisfied by expansion and pained by diminution.

And so for such expansion we begin to absorb molecules and energy of others. For a tree, it takes the molecules of water and the energy of the sunlight. And for us? Here’s Maslow’s list: Air, Water, Food, Shelter, Sleep, Sex, Safety and Security, Love and Belongingness, Self-Esteem, Self-Actualization, Vitality, Creativity, Playfulness, Meaningfulness…now that sounds like a lot more isn’t it. So we take molecules and energies from other PEOPLE: the molecules of their intellect through the internet, the heat of blood and agony and tears of others while we proof ourselves stronger, the energy of shared laughter, the sound of music in childhood piano lessons, the love and energy of a father who buys storybooks for his daughter to spend the lonely nights. We live this life only once and instead of a flicker we want fireworks.

And then maybe at some point maybe we find our limits. Maybe it’s the fact that we can invent smart phones but we cannot even make an orange. And maybe it’s the fact that we work our asses off to invent smart phones and then we work our asses off to get one. And that makes us satisfied. And then we die with satisfaction, possibly leaving behind us a bunch of kids who think smart phones come as naturally as water. Constant motion is what we need. And in that motion we want to make fireworks, even if we know that we occasionally will choose to renounce, will choose to relinquish, even if we know that in the end we will have to learn to feed others by our own demise. But we still want fireworks. Because it is heat. It is expansion. It is still what creates the universe and sets the world spinning.

So blessed be the fireworks. It’s life. Be fruitful, and multiply.

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