“Losing feels worse than winning feels good. “ Vins Scully- on another type of fouling out.
And what does the rooster think about this? Does being locked out of his pecking ground (losing), feel worse than finding a tasty grub or bit of grit (winning) would feel good? That’s how it works with humans. Anthropomorphizing- so why not chickens? We’ve evolved to feel our losses more acutely than we feel our wins. For our ancestors, not getting eaten by a lion was more important than bringing home the bacon. Not losing (staying alive) meant passing along your genes. Fast forward millennia; we still hate to lose. Even if we don’t really care that much about whatever we’ve lost ( a ballgame, a personal possession, ability to enter the park) it still feels bad. And we’ll remember that loss twice as long as we remember a win. As with the rooster, the pleasure of the tasty grub is short-lived compared to the indignity of fowling out.
Losing ruffles our tail feathers. Don’t add the “unnecessary” and you won’t have to feel bad about losing it.