Let's Go Around Crushing Competitions

“Unni, unni! Look at this!”

Late January.

A few days after Arin's sixth birthday.

I was reading a paper on the living room sofa when Arin came scampering over, tablet in hand.

“This! I want to enter this!”

“Huh? What is it?”

A video of an awards ceremony for some competition was playing on the screen.

A child standing onstage was holding a huge trophy high above their head.

And thunderous applause poured in from the audience.

Clap clap clap clap clap-...