Do health and sports have any connection between them?
Of course, sports do provide us with the best kind of physical exercise.
The kind of exercise that one enjoys doing!
Not the kind of exercise that one does as a sense of duty for keeping the health and body in shape!
One enjoys playing, and so, one plays.
Exercise is the side-benefit one gets out of enjoying playing sports.
One does not need making any sense-of-duty kind of a dreary effort and still the muscles are exercised!
Such simple a thing!
Looks like health and sports are like hands and gloves.
So easy and full of fun do they make our life!
But do they really do so?
Do we really play when we play sports, or do we only make an effort to win them?
All the sports on earth have been designed to enjoy through an effort to win them.
When you lose a game, you feel bad.
Can this be called the sportsman spirit?
Sportsman spirit bothers not for win or lose.
But the sports are designed either to win or to lose!
What an irony!
We are contradicting our own self.
We are taking health and sports away from each other!
We, on earth, have designed sports as war.
War thrills us.
But thrill is no enjoyment, it's only a kind of entertainment.
Entertainment that we need in order to come out of the dreariness of our life!
Life that has no fun left in it, in its normal course of activity.
We need something that compensates for the dreariness, life has fallen victim to.
That something has to be a thrilling one since it is a reaction and not an action in itself.
War gives humans a thrill.
So, we have designed all our sports on the pattern of war only.
If this win or lose is taken out of the design of sports, they will be dreary as life in itself is.
There may get established a connection between health and sports then, but we will no more enjoy playing them.
That means it's not the process of hitting the football that gives us joy but the displaying of the scoreboard that does so.
Displaying (dis-playing), linguistically also means something against the spirit of playing!
We do not know any other way to design our sports.
Fighting a war!
And we call it team spirit!
And we teach team building in our management courses, based on this spirit of fighting a war against those who are not a part of our team!
Is it not what gang forming too, is?
Are we turning our best brains and our best bodies into a kind of respected gangsters?
How can such activities be conducive to health?
Health and sports are left with no connection between them
How can they let us be easy, what in fact health is - being easy!?
Rather we want to pose challenges in order to get joy out of something - the joy of suspense in sports, the joy of suspense in movies, the joy of suspense in fiction, the joy of suspense in gambling, as well as the joy of suspense in war.
All the cheap kinds of suspense!
Health and sports turn strangers to each other!
And when the same suspense comes in its healthy form and establishes itself as a part of our personal mainstream lives as different from the artificial entertainment of sports or movies or fiction or gambling or war, we take it in not as suspense but as anxiety.
We want to avoid the uncertainties of life as far as they are the part of its mainstream.
We want to turn our life as safe and secure as possible.
The life turns dull and boring.
Then we try to infuse it with passion through putting challenges in front of it in terms of goals and aims and objectives of an ambition, taking all care that they are absolutely safe and secure.
The boredom and dullness remain as such, only getting covered by a mask of thrill, which is nothing else but pure tension of the mind and the body.
We live a life swinging between the two extremes - tension and boredom, resulting into mental hurry and mental lethargy.
Or, confidence and diffidence!
Or, courage and timidity!
Or, loyalty and treachery!
Or, motivation and inaction!
Or, any such pair of opposites in life, on earth!
Both the extremes are equally unhealthy, and we simply keep living our life swinging between the two of them only.
Even when we play, we do not have the spirit of playing but the tension of winning and the fear of losing only.
Which bigger sport than life itself is there on earth?
And who plays it with the real sportsman spirit here?
We are simply out to win it only.
And in the process, we have already lost it.
The bigger the win, the bigger the losing!
We never play the game of life.
We always fight a war in life.
Health and sports turn enemy to each other by now!
We must come out a winner - that is what has been nailed deep into the core of our heart and our mind since early childhood.
Our culture does not let us play the game innocently without having a desire to win it or the fear of losing it.
We have already lost - our love, our innocence, our passion, our joy, and our health!
Can we redesign our sports that we, the humans play on earth?
So that health and sports are able to re-establish the connection that has been lost between them!
By the way, I had asked you a question in my article titled 'How to be Healthy'. I repeat it here:
Is there not a single game on earth that does not require a win or a lose and still keeps our passion to play it, intact?
Again, I repeated the question in my last article too:
I repeat my question that I had asked you in my article titled 'How to be Healthy':
Is there not a single game on earth that does not require a win or a lose and still keeps our passion to play it, intact?
Is there any?
Any answers?
Think. Keep thinking, and it may take us somewhere where we stand face to face with health.
And then we will design our life as the biggest sport ever that we neither need winning nor fear losing.
We'll design our sports anew too.
Only then will health and sports have a real connection between the two of them!
About the Author
By qualification, G B Singh is an electronics engineer, passionate to change the quality of life on earth.
Contact him at http://www.ThirdEyeHealth.com for instant vision correction, and at http://www.LifeSip.com for becoming a volunteer leader.
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