Auditions Shmaditions

In the never ending race for supremacy, we, as humans, strive to be the best.  In our jobs, in our school, in auditions: we all want to be the best there is in our respective field(s).  But what happens when being “the best” quite literally doesn’t mean anything?  Take, for example, auditioning for an instrument that in the end doesn’t mean anything more than bragging rights.  Who really wins, the guy who gets last chair or the guy who gets first chair and has to do more work (i.e. assign parts)?  What if the last chair guy still ends up with good parts because the first chair guy assigns them?  Isn’t that some sort of loophole in the system?  Should we not be rewarded for our effort?  In a scenerio like this – which is totally hypothetical, of course – the participants of audition don’t really feel any sense of reward either way.  It would seem like the good idea would be to botch the audition, because if you’re good then you’re assured, most likely, the good parts without even trying.  Interesting. Taking this a little further, if we, again, as humans, are modeled after what some people call “God,” and we still strive to be the best, then does God strive to be the best?  If this is the case, then we can assume that there are other gods out there.  Maybe life is just a big audition for God to show how well he can manage a world.  I wonder if he’s winning?  It would seem the winners would be the worlds who don’t fight among themselves and have advanced to the point of exploring the outer reaches of the fishbowl we call “space.”  If so then I don’t think we’re on the winning team.  …How that jumped to religion I have no idea…