How does motivation gets sabotaged by others?
His child-sized opponent lay crumpled on the ground. His lean half-android and half-human body was overshadowed by the referee’s carbon fiber hand. An array of red lasers emanated out from its fingertips to carefully calculated the boy’s vitals. Soon after, the referee’s deep mechanical voice began to ominously count down from 10.
Hordes of shouting spectators shook with anticipation as they stared intently upon the flickering neon-illuminated fighting pit. But the loudest person in the room was the screaming mother who frantically shook the wire fence while cheering on her fallen son.
“Jimmy! Get up, my son! You are a champion! Get up… please! I believe in you! I know you can beat Andros!”
The undefeated champion chuckled to himself as he heard these words. Even though he himself was merely a boy, his adopted sponsor had spent thousands of dollars augmenting almost every inch of his body with the highest quality fighting augmentations. He was easily 10 times stronger than his opponent.
But despite the odds, Andros was impressed that the little boy kept fighting to stay conscious no matter how many times he had already been knocked down in the fight. His mother’s cheers seemed to always spur him back up.
And sure enough, the frail little fighter shakily stood back onto his feet; with merely 2 seconds left on the clock.
As the two boys squared off once again, the match quickly resumed. Over and over again Andros pummeled and smashed the small fighter’s bruised and battered body. But just as he was winding up his finishing blow, the small frail fighter surprised him with a unexpected uppercut to his jaw.
As the champion crashed to the ground, he saw the referee’s hands hover over his face to scan his vitals. But before he could stand back up, he quickly stole a glance at where his sponsor once sat. But he was no longer there. The weight of this rejection kept the reigning champion crushed to the ground.
All of us have an inert need to feel supported. And when we don’t receive it, we lose our effectiveness and no longer want to carry on.
