I remember playing sports as a kid and it was always much more fun when we didn’t keep score. There weren’t a whole lot of fights or arguments, and it wasn’t until you started keeping score that the game lost is purity and lost it’s fun. It wasn’t about the game anymore at all, it was about winning vs losing - being better and therefore good.
When we start to keep score, we start to place value judgements on ourselves vs the outside world. Once that happens, we seem to forget why we started the game in the first place.
In organized sports, I also remember no matter how many points we were winning by at halftime, the coach always said “we’re going to play the second half like it is zero - zero.”
I wonder why it took me until the second half of my life to realize the following.
live life like it is zero-zero.
Will you be my teammate for the second half Elizabeth?
Love - Love
-J
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