Super Bowl / Russell Wilson Thoughts

The big game is about to start in a few hours.

There are nerves and excitement all around the country right about now.  Players, broadcasters, performers, and coaches preparing their minds and bodies for the biggest stage in the world.  Companies crossing their fingers that the millions they spent on advertising will pay dividends in profit margins.  Fans digging up any talismans that can hopefully help (or at least not hinder) the chances of their team winning the game.  Hosts and hostesses preparing food and facilities to manage the next several hours as friends and family members descend upon their homes for food, drink, and cheering.

The Super Bowl is a huge event, a big moment, and moments can be very important.  Wonderful and horrible things can happen for and to people in the blink of an eye, and the joy and pain we experience during these times can be permanent.

Right now Russell Wilson is preparing for the biggest moment of his relatively short professional career, and at the end of today, he will be judged based on how he does during it.  Many will say that he will be defined by what he does on the worlds biggest stage today.

But honestly, he won't.  Regardless of how many times we hear it, we simply are not defined by moments.  Neither our greatness nor our mediocrity, nor our success, nor our failures are the result of small periods of time.  They are not the results of singular events.