Recycle Success.

A lot of people seem to get caught up in the final results, they seem to connect success with placements and titles and awards. When in reality those things are a byproduct of success. The pride and joys of the sport aren't printed on a sheet, they aren't timed, and the pretty rosettes we collect at the end of the day don’t represent them. Yet some how people tend to focus on only the final artificial product, not the journey. 

The longer I play this sport, the more I think about how the byproducts of success are truly toxic. About how competitors' attitudes can spoil from over exposure...Its a rather scary thought, to know that as you progress you'll come in contact more and more with these pollutants.  But I think with some work this type of results-oriented pollution can be reduced. 

Success should be recycled. 

Constantly in motion, shared in the name of sportsmanship and productive competition. Keeping success bottled up in one person causes it to spoil, it loses its purity. And as a community it's our job to continually challenge one another to keep the sport evolving. We have the ability to plant new seeds, to keep our sport growing in the right direction, without contaminants limiting its existence. 

Keep our sport clean, and our earth too. 

Happy Earth Day.