Footballer

I'm watching Football on Tv right now. Not American Football, what you folks would call soccer. Switzerland versus Turkey. 1-0 for the Swiss. There are hundreds of thousands watching this match. The players are probably getting paid millions. They're all decked out in their fancy uniforms playing with so much intensity. Old men are standing on the sidelines screaming advice at them. It's just a game though. No one is being saved by it, no one really helped. Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Turkey are not being fixed. But still, people like to watch football. It's probably my favourite sport to watch. ... come to think of it, I don't watch sports at all, except football when it's on.

It's good to watch people just play a game. It's not that it has any inherent meaning or virtue in it. I think it's just nice to not think about life for a while. Just to focus on goals completely opposite to those of regular life. Kicking a ball into a net suddenly becomes meaningful when people expect it, when people want to see it, when they cheer for it. Football is essentially an Existentialistic experience. The meaning of it is created by those watching, and for somepeople the goal scored by Switzerland brings great joy, for others it brings despair, and anger. There's not really anything meaningful about the action or really even the results. It just give people meaning.

Maybe the world is kind of like a play, and God's watching it like football.