by Bradford Barrett

Created on: November 05, 2009

She called him a loser

Once again the reoccurring theme of life reared its ugly head. I really should be less surprised. But when you hear this word tossed around including but not limited to 3 times a day. One is forced to consider his options: 1) A stunning lack of uncreativity is on the rise in the insult department throughout the world. 2) People might need to re-assess their own pre-conceived notions of their own awesomeness. 3) I might need to look at this word lower we throw around so much.

Loser [looz-er] (n)-


-One that continually loses.

This definition may or may not apply to me, mostly due to technicalities. If I can break a chain of losses, say 1 in 3 times....I can comfortably count myself a non-continual loser. Definitely not a winner, but possibly not a loser. Although instinctively we all know its good to be a winner, I've never heard anyone describe themselves as such. Because if anyone needs convincing they are a winner or needs to convince other people as such; it kind of goes without saying that they aren't. But patterns, whether they be losing or winning, are temporary. Bad times come and go. So if you're insulted with this definition in mind, what you're basically being told is: Hey, you're on the verge of something good.

-Someone that has lost something.

This is a really uncompromising definition, you lose your keys for 5 minutes and you're stuck being a loser all day long. What if you meant to lose something, like someone's phone number who you found really irritating. Can I really be considered a loser for accomplishing a purposeful goal I set out for myself? Losing something isn't always a horrible thing. Sometimes it's even a good thing, even if we're totally convinced otherwise. But it's always a change, and change is usually painful. I'm not going to throw some crappy 'pain is weakness leaving the body' phrase at you. But we can't deny that many good things come out of pain and change. So if you're insulted with this in mind: Hey, you're on the verge of change and you're not afraid.

-A person that is at a disadvantage by a situation.

So this is pretty straightforward, although I seriously doubt if anyone uses it with this definition in mind. Call a paraplegic a loser and you'll probably be punched in the lower torso to knee-cap region, call a deaf person a loser and...well I imagine your consequences won't be too severe unless he's looking right at you and he's lip reader. But while these people might lack something in

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