In a video game, it is obvious if you are a winner or a loser. If you lose, the game concludes, if you win there are congratulations at the end.
I believe many people wonder if they are winners or losers in the game of life. They assess themselves against other people and make a determination by that assessment. Early in my navy years many of us wondered about that. Our gage was looking at the other sailors we knew and worked with. There were a few that made it an easy task. We looked at them and their performance and if we were not like the easily visible losers, then we had to be winners. It was very simple and effective.
With life in the real world it is not so easy to make the comparison. There are so many different levels and occupations than being a sailor that makes a true comparison impossible in real time. If we compare ourselves to the wealthy, it is easy to see what we think keeps us out of that supposedly higher realm of winners. If we compare ourselves to the homeless, then it seems easy to determine we are winners. Therein everything seems resolved, but that is not at all correct. The wealthy are the one percent and the homeless are another one percent. That is not something to make a decision about how we fit into the game. We need to go deeper into the other 98% to make our decision more accurate. The majority of us were not born with a silver spoon in our mouths, nor were we born into poverty. So what and where is the answer?
There may be no correct answer to the question in the real world.
Here is my answer:
Are you loved by someone?
Do you love someone?
Do you have sufficient income to live outside of poverty?
Do you enjoy your life in the present?
Have you ever loved someone?
If you can answer yes to every question above, then you are a winner! Nothing else matters and it doesn’t matter what other people may think about you. It only matters what you think about yourself.
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