Reflections on the deeper meaning behind the films we watch.
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Now it’s your turn →Remember that first time?
A baseball game with your family. Building with Legos. Collecting cards.
That first video game.
Remember how easy it was?
You weren’t thinking about rankings. Statistics. Value. Or winning.
You were just playing.
So what happened?
The competition got fiercer. The stakes got higher. The latest stats came in. That card became more valuable. That Lego set became a collector’s item.
The thing you loved became something else.
In The Bad News Bears, a coach takes a group of kids and prepares them to compete.
The players have talent. They love the game.
But as expectations and pressure build, we see a shift.
The game stops being about playing. It becomes about winning.
And when that happens, the joy begins to disappear.
It is only when they return to playing for the love of the game that they reconnect with what drew them there in the first place.
Most of us know this feeling.
We start something because it excites us.
A hobby. A passion. A skill. A dream.
And over time we become good at it.
Then expectations, performance and comparison arrives.
And what once felt playful begins to feel like work.
We didn’t stop loving the game. We stopped playing.
Competition can be healthy. Growth can be healthy.
But every now and then it is worth asking: Am I still enjoying this? Or am I only chasing the outcome?
Because if we collect and never play. If we bet and never watch. If we focus only on results.
We may slowly replace the joy that brought us here with something that can never fully satisfy us.
Pay attention to the stories that stay with you.
They’re pointing somewhere.
Map how it made you feel on EmotiBear.
See what your pattern reveals.
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