Why Worry, Just Like It!

When one leaves one's mind to its spontaneous course of action, but later reminisces on it in a rationalistic way, one would find no particular logic or order in the way the synapses fired.

Indeed our thought process has not been characterised. Perhaps it is completely random and beyond our reach, and perhaps it lends itself only to statistical analysis of data collected of objective actions. Perhaps it is chaotic and is deterministic, but an unpredictable determinism, and who knows, the fractional dimensional nature of the brain may someday be encompassed in a non-linear differential equation.

Whatever it is, this wondorous modus operandi gives us the characteristic of being rational beings who, though are capable of being logical, are also the ones who depend on enthymemes rather than syllogisms for most of their ends. In other words, we use intuition and insight, which are non-quantifiable entities, and which talk to us in terms of half-truths.

We are able to make decisions without seeing a line of reasoning to the end - we are capable of trusting ourselves on gut-feelings. We interpret the seeming randomness around us, which perhaps we do not have the bandwidth or the power to resolve, using indefinite terms such as "luck," "unluck," "providence" and "fate."

Given the complexity and seeming senselessness of the world around us, it is not really surprising that we are drawn into the bowels of a part of the universe that, to us, unlike the other part that draws everything in for good and which is a creation of God, is  a creation of Man and is liberating by its very nature of being comprehensible.

Sport is a syllogism. "If 'event A' happens, Player B gets the point." It is absolute with respect to it's rules, and other than in it's execution, one need not dwell on undefinable and non-absolute thoughts to understand the outcomes. It is the one place where we do understand why something happened, though we may not be able to really predict what may happen a given day, perhaps because the entities that compete are from the real world where there are more variables at play then we can process.

Sports thus absolve us of the uncertainty that is rife in real life in any scenario that was forseen in drawing up its rules. In sports, our understanding in hindsight, is not limited by God's rules coupled with our inability to comprehend them. Perhaps it gives us a sense of "the Alpha".

But everything about humans is ironic, as they say, the 'they' here being ironically humans themselves. The way we enjoy Sports—the domain of absolute objectivity created by man—is subjective.

We link ourselves to the entities in competition—God's creations which we do not understand yet—rather than our creation—the Sport in its rules—that which we created to escape the uncertainty of God's world.

Perhaps our attempt to escape the cruel complexity of the world by hiding in a corner where we are just spectators of an event which is determined by OUR rules is futile. Perhaps it is an oversimplification from our point of view to look at Sports as just a set of rules. Perhaps it is because we are rendered powerless in our attempt to shut the senses to the subjective inputs thrust on us by our surroundings and our brain, because of our power that permits us to dwell on indefinite subjectivity.

Perhaps it is all wrong. Perhaps we are just simple people wanting to have some fun.