Everyone has a box full of medals and trophies from their youth sports careers. They remind us of the good times and memories with friends and family. In reality though, they ruin lives, they ruin the art of competition. These medals are engraved with “If you had fun you won!” It takes away the drive and competitive edge of Americans in the job world. These kids go through life thinking that winning isn’t everything; as long as you try you will succeed. This is just plain wrong. Kids need to learn the hard way of losing and losing badly; good teams should run up the score and instill fear into the opponent. Without the art of competition we begin to lose what we know as a society. We begin to lose jobs that we have had for centuries, immigrants are coming in with better work ethics because they don’t have participation medals. These medals strike deeper than just your youth years; it transforms you as a person and is transforming us as a society. Without these participation medals we could achieve goals we have hoped to achieve as a nation. The art of competition will bring the US back to power and display the nation’s progress as a whole from the elderly down to the youth. Kids may cry and whine about not getting a medal after the game but that is how it is meant to be, not everyone can win. Winners are a different breed; they work and are determined to achieve greatness. They aren’t brought up to come in second place and still receive a trophy or medal; they are brought up to push themselves toward first. It is obvious to see how and why participation medals are the work of the devil himself, which is why we need change. Losing is awful and we need to make sure the youth of our nation know that, show them what loss truly is, this is the only way to provide the change necessary. “If you ain’t first you’re last.” Those are the words we need to live by.
This was purely satirical and doesn’t reflect my exact feelings on the subject of Participation Medals. No intent to discriminate against those who believe in participation medals or the extremely competitive.