Having blogged about what it means to be a loser, I've been thinking about what it means to be a "winner." For this blog post, "winner" won't mean "someone who feels like a winner" or even "someone who wins" or "someone who possesses traits that increases their chances of winning." For this blog post, I'm going to use the term "winner" to refer to people who are winning the game of life.
Life is much like a game. It has rules and players, it has a clear "object," and the purpose of life is happiness, just as the purpose of games is fun. To win a game, a player must complete the object of the game. In this case, the object of the game of life is to become like God. Thus, a "winner" is someone who is becoming like God.
Strangely enough, I've been using the words "winner" and "loser" in this sense since long before I started thinking about this. Previously, I used the terms "winners" and "losers" to mean "nice people" and "jerks," respectively. If a man is rude to his girlfriend and she dumps him, it could be said that she dumped him because he was a "loser."
Come to think of it, there's another way in which being a "loser" means "not becoming like God." Becoming like God takes a lot of progress, a lot of growing up. If a person isn't really growing up, if they're choosing not to take responsibility for themselves and their actions, if they're not a diligent and productive member of society, it can be said that they are a "loser." Though perhaps, when using the word "loser" in this sense, I should not be too judgemental.
If life is a game and the object of this game is to become like God, I most certainly want to be a "winner." Being a "winner" in this sense takes a lot of work, more work than winning most games or convincing oneself to feel like a winner, but the prize for winning the game of life is well worth it. And when the alternative is being a "loser," both in the eyes of society and in respect to our goal of becoming like God, I would really like to avoid that.
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