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title = "Sports ruin everything"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-07-14T19:06:00+02:00
categories = ["blog"]
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weight = 2002
image_dir = "blog/images"
image_max_width = 600
abstract = "One short word to ruin everything"
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> George: If it's not about sports, I find it very hard to concentrate.
>
> Jerry: You're not very bright, are you?
>
> George: No I'm not. I would like to be, but I'm not.
>
> -- Seinfeld, S06E05 - The Couch

If there is one word I absolutely despise, it's _sport_.
If it's sports, then I'm out.

It's not that I dislike physical activity.
I find it boring, dull, and depressing — but I don't hate it.
It's what we need to do, not to die to young.

But sports?
Adding sports to anything worsens it.
Be it running, kicking a soccer ball, chess, or computer games.
If you add competition, scores, the idea that someone is _better_ at it, it all falls apart.

When I was a kid, it was always the same.
We were having a great time, just goofing around.
"OK, now it's for real. Zero to zero, you start".
And boom, just like that.
All enjoyment is gone.

I think there are three types of people here:

-   those who hate competition
-   those who can still appreciate the fun ignoring the competition
-   those who live for the competition.

Coincidentally, this is very much correlates with how much I will hate being around such a person.

And sports read their ugly heads out of everything, not only _games_.
We've got competitive cooking, programming, excel.
I find no joy in such things.

I love programming, but I would never do it to be _better_ at it than someone else.
I liked multiplayer games which were focused on having fun (think late 1999), but nowadays you need to specialize at them to have any fun.
Damn you, e-sports!

So yeah.
Sports ruin everything for me.