Are You Competitive?

By all accounts Michael Jordan will fight you to the death over basketball, football, baseball, darts, cards, pool and even beer pong. I don't have the Michael Jordan bone. If I don't think the event or sport matters then I don't care if you are better than me. It's not worth the mental and physical effort to worry about who is best at table tennis.

Let me tell you a story. Get your baba and blankie. When I was in college, Westchester Community College, cue the applause, I had an incident. I was in gym class. Yes, we had gym, I had a guy talking SMACK to me over badminton. That for those who don't know is THE most useless sport on the planet. That day I was particularly not happy with myself for being in community college or for being in gym. This ass clown on "my team" felt different. He wanted to win at this terribly boring game. He made me aware of my lack of effort. I made him aware of the lack of "F's" I gave. Words were exchanged. I may have embarrassed him verbally over his passion for badminton. The young man invited me to fight and I ignored him.

When gym class was over I went to the locker room to change. He followed me like a weirdo stalker. I had barely got my jeans on when he tapped me on the shoulder and invited me to fight him. I am paraphrasing cause it was so long ago but I am sure I said; "you need to relax." I mean we were talking about BADMINTON in GYM CLASS in COMMUNITY COLLEGE. I'm sure I was not nice about it and there were people there to watch. He was not happy so he took a swing at me. I beat him severely. I did not want it to come to this. I wanted to talk to him about why this was important to him but this was not meant to be.

It was the most irrelevant competition in history. I felt bad for him afterward. I felt bad for everyone involved. I felt bad for the "college" the students, the gym teacher, the administrators and the people that sent their kids to this "school". We were all wasting our time.

I decided that day that I would not waste one more minute of my time doing anything I did not believe in that included community college. It was an important day in my life.

I was not competitive that day but I am competitive. I left Westchester Community College and started competing in the only thing other than my family that I care about..RADIO.

Someone sent me something today from someone I used to compete with. I beat him like he owed me money and that still will never be enough because he tells people he is great at what he does. I want to be so good at what I do that a guy like that cannot even get hired. I don't want victory, I wanna be present for surrender.

Competition is good. It drives our society and our country. I want to bring the death nail everyday. It makes me better at my job and makes me a better person. I am of the opinion that we need more of this and not less. "Be like Mike." Smoke your opponent.