Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Utils, and A Step Towards the Meaning of Life

I lied. I am going to tell you a bit about why I do what I do, and why I've done what I've done.
Let's start this way: I play Ultimate. It's also known as Frisbee, Ultimate Frisbee, or Disc (more often than not, it's just called disc by its fanbase.), and is by far the most badass sport on the face of the planet. Haven't heard of it? Wikithatshit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_(sport)
If you've clicked that link, scroll on down to section six, "Spirit of the Game."
It's the idea that people ought to be fair. Players ought to have a mutual respect, and maintain a true friendliness for all other players. That's how disc is. C'est ca.
Take it one step further, up to the Eutyls level.
I have misspelled the word "Util", it seems.
A Util is a term in economics, "referring to the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service" (Answers dot com). That's Utils.
Eutyls is Frisbee. It's the Ultimate "club" (If you'd call it that) where I play, and it's the ultimate Ultimate club, as far as I'm concerned.
The originating idea for the club was that one ought to play for the satisfaction of the game. Forget the score. Don't be afraid to lose track of points. Just play.
C'est ca.
A few weeks back, when doing a school project on Ultimate (I love it when we get to pick our own topics), I was looking at the philosophy of Spirit of the Game. And I came to the conclusion that we shouldn't just govern ourselves in such a way during games of Ultimate, but all the time.
That's part one.
Part two is a little less complicated.
Look to the little things. Every person, every single action around you, and every thing around you has a purpose, has a motive, has something miraculous about them or itself. Notice it. Marvel in it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Learn to smile.
And find the ordinarily extraordinary things in your Everyday.
I want to spread the idea. Why not use the internet?

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