11. Either-Or?

People and their idiosyncrasies. Some have really passed the point where they can just be excused as the eccentricities of the different.

An individual cannot have a favourite sport if his nation (country of citizenship, rarely of birth, after all the latter is something we are always trying to live down) doesn't participate in it. To hell, with rest of the world.


And of course, just because you're following the other sport, it is understood that you are unaware of the glory that your nation brings you. You just cannot if you enjoy a sport in which your nation doesn't participate. Didn't you know, your attention and information span doesn't even cover the range of a teaspoon?

Then, you cannot laud your favourite sport without demeaning another just because the one that is your favourite has been (for now or always had been) overshadowed by the other sport! So snub the others who don't share your favourite. Otherwise how else will your choice gain prominence over others?

It always comes down to comparisons and a case of either-or, so challenged we are in our outlooks that we do not understand that there is room for more than one interest in our lives. And of course, another person doesn't come and agree with us, we have to challenge them, we are nothing on our own. Always seeking approval for what we like, what we believe, what we are (?)... Do they even understand how their own mindsets come across?

What will it take to broaden the outlook? To understand the sun doesn't rise and set with your choices or ideas... What will it take to understand that it is not about right/wrong or either/or but there can be so many combinations of individuals other than the high-and-mighty you?