Competition

The football playoffs are over and the stage is set for Superbowl XLVI in Indianapolis February 5, 2012. The New York Giants and the New England Patriots will represent their conferences in the annual spectacular. Most of the playoff teams were evenly matched, it seemed to me, and any of them could easily have made it to the big showdown if the games had gone only slightly differently. So it seems to me. Your ideas about it may be different from mine. No matter. The directions of our own lives have little or nothing to do with football.
In the meantime, the Republican hopefuls for the candidacy of their party now number only four. Three of the four have won at least one of the three state primaries already held. The next one will be in Florida. I have not heard of a challenger for the Democratic Party nomination, so I assume the incumbent can expect to be the candidate.
Competition is built into the fabric of our culture. Churches vie for members, stores for customers, banks for depositors, while schools compete in many types of sports and academic contests. Meanwhile professional sports move from one type of sport to another, all of them fiercely competitive. The whole world joins the competition when the Olympic games take place. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had games instead of wars to settle our international disputes? I know what you are thinking: “Dream on!” O.K., I will.