waxing philosophical

i shall be rather philosophical about a couple of topics that i enjoy debating about.

first: rivalry, particurally between swim teams. it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. the only enemy at a swim meet is your time. the people you swim against help some, and the ribbons from winning heats and events are nice, but in the end, your only opponent is your time. so what's wrong with lending help to a younger swimmer, even if she's on an opposing team that's pretty well your team's mortal enemy? the truth of the matter is, we swim to try to beat the clock. opponents just help us show our best.

second: normal. what constitutes as normal? not everyone is the same, so what causes her to be normal and me to be unnormal? no two people are the same. isn't normal a sense of uniformity? no two people look exactly alike, think exactly alike, talk exactly alike; in fact, most people are very different from each other. so why do we label some people "normal" and others "not normal"? it doesn't make much sense.

that is the end of my philosophical musings for tonight.

-enna