Improvement (Mar. 31)

It seems that in life there is a general perception that we should try to improve ourselves. The whole educational system is built on the idea of improvement. Sports are very much the same way. It seems that the general perception is that if something can be done well there is a desire to see if it can be done better. What exactly does this lead to? On the one hand for those that seem to have any bit of talent and drive this pushes some to become better and better. This is not necessarily a good thing as one can see in the sports world this has led to the use and over use of steroids to improve ones self. To others this drive will soon face a reality of a lack of talent and then drive one to simply stop trying because they know that they cannot keep up with others, either due to lack of talent or do to that lack of drive. It seems that this attitude of improvement will cause most to end in doing something that is not healthy and not improving. There is only a thin slice of the possible outcomes that really serve as a good outcome. Perhaps the reality is that we need to keep improving, but we might need to reconsider what areas in life we consider improving.