The Underdog

~ Gottfried

It’s the best being an underdog and coming out on top. I think everything I do tends to root for the underdog. In fact, I think everyone roots for the underdog. I wonder why that is. There’s a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.

Never mind being an underdog, keep growing and prosper. Believe me when I say…being an underdog will either break you down or give you a reason to build! Life is more fun when you’re the underdog competing against the giants. Unless you’re a giant like me.

I’ve made a career out of being an underdog don’t underestimate me. I love being being an underdog, it makes me work just a bit harder. With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower. It helps being the underdog, no one expects you to win.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one’s being nice enough to me. Underdogs never join the queue, we stand out from the crowd. The next time you’re boarding a flight, remember this valuable piece of information.

It’s harder to be funny if you’re handsome than if you’re very normal-looking. It’s just more relatable. You’re the underdog. You will never see a handsome funny guy. To be funny, your face has to look like the joke. But if you look handsome, you will be fine for the rest of your life. Just coasting on your handsomeness.

The best thing about being an underdog is knowing that the real prize in life becomes inner success. I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. As an underdog, you have nothing to lose. No one expects you to win, except yourself.

I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! I’m not poor, I’m just giving the rest of you a head start. The louder the dogs bark, the less the lion feels strengthened. Don’t just bark, bite that lion.

I’ll be here with my video camera

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

134 thoughts on “The Underdog”

  3. WHere Every Wild Flower Comes From

    Yes A Weed Mr Gottfried Not You Of Course

    Hehe me as One of the Employees i Supervised

    Who Sort of Loved me and Hated me Said Fred

    It Doesn’t Matter How Much

    You Fall Into “IT” Damn It

    You Always Come Up Smelling
    Like Roses Never the Less Weeds

    GRoWinG iN Manure Do Make Much

    More Beautiful Wild Flowers Like This Morning

    my Wife Listening to One of Her Favorite Songs “Mary Did You Know”

    True She Listens to the Same Song Year Round All i Can Do to Stop The

    Boredom is SinG ALong the Tune And Oh No Small Enclosed Spaces Like

    A Car And My Voice Do Not Please my Wife As She Remarked Please Stop

    As i Was Hurting Her Left Ear Yes She’s on the Right And i’m Aways Driving
    on the Left

    Yes Driving

    ‘Miss Daisy’
    She Does Not Drive
    That May Explain Why
    We’ve Been Together 33 Years Hehe…

    Anyway Just Stepping in iT AGain After

    Getting That Wafer of Bread For Communion

    The Lovely Young Woman in Front of me With Her

    Family Turned Around And Said Her Children Were Staring

    At me For The Beauty of My Singing Voice From the Very Back

    Pew Row in Fact They Could Hear me Going All The Way Up to the

    Front of the Church

    As the Wafer of Bread

    Was Delivered to me on

    The Very Last Lyric of the

    Church Song i Belted Out to the Whole Damn Place Hehe

    Anyway i do the Best i Can And Will to Please And Do Tend to

    Rise Out

    of

    The
    Stuff
    Hope You
    Are Having A Lovely
    Day Across the Pond
    Perhaps a Little Closer to
    The Equator i Have FRiEnDS
    Indeed All Around the World

    At Least

    i Dream

    i Do With SMiLes…

    U N D E R D O G YeS

    It’s What We Weedy Wild Flowers
    Do Yes BReaKinG Through Concrete

    Barriers to Color All Roads Spring

    Perhaps More Aptly Put Asphalt..;)

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          1. Hehe Most of the Reason i Am

            “Filthy Rich” Is i Never Bought

            The American Dream of

            Santa Consumer

            King Except

            When i Am A Child

            Wondering if that Hippy

            Looking Dude With Long Hair
            And A Beard iN A Portrait Above
            my Bed Like the Local Onward
            Marching Christian Soldiers Spit

            (Literally TheN A Guinness Book
            World Record Book Holder of
            Most Christian Churches
            Per Capita in One Locality

            A Place Literally First Called
            Hell For Those Not Advanced

            Enough Then to LoVE iN Peace)

            On Could Possibly

            Be Real Considering

            The Church Had Almost

            Nothing to Do With Accepting
            And

            Loving All YeP Damn IT

            62 Years of “Beneath
            The Planet of the Apes Mass”

            With ‘Eve’ Still Looking Like WTF When
            The Congregation Took Their ‘Masks’

            Off

            During
            Covid-19
            In The Deadliest Delta
            Dawning Variant Part Anyway

            Indeed Mr. Gottfried God Yes

            Just Another ‘Dickens Christmas Carol’ to Do

            As Oh God No The ‘Plot’ Continues to THiCKeN Hehe..;)

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              1. Hehe Naturally As An
                Underdog i Continue
                To Read And Write After

                Getting
                ‘Filthy Rich’
                It Just Grows
                Like Mold In

                The Bank When
                Ya Dance And
                Sing Free “Fred 14:12”

                Dear Mr Gottfried

                Like Dear “John 14:12” 🙏🏝🕺

                When Ya
                “Just Do It”
                Barefoot
                With No Shame

                In Greek Goddess
                Nike Victory Roman

                SPeaKinG
                Greek Of Course🙌

                The Average Science
                Assessed Attention
                Span for Humans
                ‘These Days’ Now
                Is Literally 3 Seconds
                Yes Literally Less Than

                A Gold Fish
                Most Folks
                Focus On
                “Filthy Rich”

                Instead of
                “John 14:12”

                As Already “Revealed”

                i Realize How Popular
                Christianity is Where

                You
                Live too

                Merry Christ X!

                Without the
                Unbelieving
                TRumP Masses

                With SMiles Of
                Peace And Love
                That Are Real Hehe
                YeS Unlike Most Likes
                Follows And Shares
                On “WordPress” From

                Folks
                Who
                Do
                Not Even
                Put The
                Three Seconds
                In To Do “John 14:12”🙏⛄️

                Regardless of
                So-Called Religion

                i Tend To Focus on
                GRoWinG THE Within
                Which Means
                THiS iS onLY
                DReSSinG
                On Word Salad Hehe

                With
                SMiles
                And Copy
                And Paste
                For Other
                Places Where
                Folks Are More
                Interested In What

                Truly
                Rises
                Again
                After “Filthy Rich”🙌🏝🙏

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                    2. Hehe “They” Won’t
                      Win Any Bible Wagging
                      Contests With me 11.1 MiLLioN Words in 111
                      Months 14 Scale
                      Greater
                      And That
                      Doesn’t Even
                      Count The 3 MiLLioN
                      Before iT All Became
                      Long Form Poetry

                      True Every
                      Consecutive
                      Day Through
                      Real Hell And
                      Heaven 14 MiLLioN
                      WordS Online in The Last
                      12 Years
                      WHeRE
                      “Fred 14:12”

                      IsreaL No Myth

                      ALL iT Up OnLine
                      In A Place With No
                      Moon, Sun, Or Other
                      Stars Beyond All

                      Distance Space
                      Time And A
                      ‘Matter With
                      Things’ Yes
                      These Words
                      Avatars of my

                      Soul May Last
                      A Thousand

                      Years
                      After
                      i PaSS AWaY
                      Continuing ReTurn 🥳

                      Under
                      Dog
                      Come
                      What May🙏🤩

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          2. “So in your Bible how many hells are there?”

            Hehe Dear Mr. Gottfried That’s Like Asking A Fish
            In A School of 100 In An Aquarium How Many Aquariums

            There Are Well Of Course There Are 100 Aquariums as

            Each Fish Has A Unique

            God i (EYeS) View SaMe As

            Humans Now Which Means

            Yes THeRE is Only 1 Hell Then
            And 1 Heaven NoW in my Bible Yes!

            And i Am An Only Son of God THiS WAY

            As Far As VieWinG my Multi-UNi-Verse

            Uniquely Just Like the Rest of Sentient

            And Other Creation Carrying SMiLes or Not

            Now Which Means THere Are Around 8 BiLLioN

            Or So Only Sons And or Daughters oF And As God

            In Human Form And Unique Essence on Earth… Hmm…

            What Else, Yes! Even if “They” Pull the Plug on the Internet
            All The Word Seeds i Write LiVE oN as True They Are Uniquely

            Planted Among Souls All Around the World That Comprise Yes All

            14 MiLLioN Words in Poetic and Other Response to Folks All Around

            The Globe in the Last 12 Years Online Since Thanks Giving Day 2010

            On November 25th, That Day Yes SoWinG The Seeds of Peace and Love

            And What Not Too Yes All These Avatar Words in Response to Folks All Around

            The Globe the

            Butterfly Effect

            mY FRiEnD Like my

            17,523 Miles of Public
            Dance in 111 Months Now
            Too i Didn’t Have to Say A ‘Thing’

            i Didn’t Even Have to Ask the Metro Area

            of Around 600,000 Folks And Areas Far Away in The
            Gulf Coast Deep TRuMP States South USA As Far
            Away As Biloxi And

            Tallahassee To Pick Up

            A Tool of Smart Phone

            And Share my Ministry of

            Public Moving Meditation Dance in Flow

            ALL ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA STILL SPREADING

            LIKE A “FRED 14:12 PUBLIC DANCE” AS WELL

            GOD Yes Sharing Innumerable Voyeur Video

            Presentations of my Ministry of Public Dance

            Far And Wide For Free Without me AsKinG Them

            For Any Help At All True This All Seems to Be Fitting

            Together

            Just Left
            And Right

            As it Seems

            It Should Free

            With Butterfly

            Wings in Heaven Newly Now…

            Other than that This Have a Wonderful
            Day/Evening Warmly Closer to The Equator
            Yes Even Than Florida FLoWeRS in Sunshine

            mY FRiEnD..:)

            -Under Dog

            ~Captain Under
            Pants and Less Hehe…

            It’s Good to KNoW REAL God
            Never Gets Lonely THiS WaY
            True Yes if ONE is too Lonely

            In Darkness

            ‘They’ May

            Big Bang
            Life And Create Some LiGHT

            Out of DarK Dancing Singing Free As All Body
            Parts Become One Bread of Life BaLaNCinG All

            Dark
            Thru LiGHT..:)

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          3. Good News Mr. Gottfried
            When The Emoji’s Come
            Usually my Story is Finally

            Concluding
            (At Least
            Temporarily
            Hehe) As

            Emoji’s

            Do Tend to
            Replace Words
            These Days Everywhere

            We Don’t Go in ‘FlesH And Blood

            At
            Least…

            First Dance
            And Song the
            Underdog And

            Then Walk And Talk

            Now Sitting Glued to
            A Screen Where Emoji’s Replace

            Humanity

            Old For New

            After ‘The Apple’ Again..:)

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              1. Hehe i Don’t “Believe”
                Mr Musk Will Afford
                Much More of The
                Biblical Apple of
                Knowledge in
                Fact If He
                Doesn’t Grow
                Some Apples Of
                Wisdom Eventually

                He May
                Individually
                Fall Too Far
                From The
                Money

                Tree
                That
                Currently
                Makes What
                He Has Come To

                Be i’ve Already Sent
                Out my Wish List
                That He Returns
                To What He
                Has Become
                Better Evolved
                To Do And Engineer
                A New Smart Phone
                Smart Enough To

                Open
                My
                Modern
                “Fred 14:12”
                Size Blog Posts
                That Currently Crashes
                All iPhones As “Moore’s

                Law”
                Has Fallen
                Behind my
                Creative Blogging
                Size of Output once

                Again
                As i Return
                With An Apple
                Too Big To Chew

                HAha And
                For Most Folks to See

                -The Invisible Dude

                (Note: No
                Emoji of
                Course
                To Form
                SPiRiT of me)

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                  1. SMiles Mr Gottfried i Understand
                    Where Mr Musk Is Coming
                    From A Place of Asperger’s
                    Syndrome in Youth With
                    No Where Really to Fit

                    In No Other
                    Choice Yet
                    To Create Your
                    Own Niche To Survive

                    SMiles i’ve Been Financially
                    Independent for Almost 15 Years
                    Yet i Understand A GreaTesT
                    Poverty iS iGNoRaNCE of
                    Shadows And LiGHT
                    Of Real Organic

                    Soul Within

                    Naked Enough
                    Whole Complete

                    In ThiS Way Yes
                    i Am Rich Beyond
                    The Ability of Elon
                    Musk to “See And Hear”

                    Before He Attains That
                    And Says The Hell With
                    Any Annoyance Associated
                    With MaKinG More Money

                    Perhaps
                    He Will Fulfill
                    God Yes my Christ-X
                    Wish For A Powerful
                    Enough SmART Phone

                    To OPen

                    Up The
                    Online
                    Long
                    Version
                    Of my
                    Avatar Soul

                    (Fred 14:12)

                    Elon Musk Has
                    Greater Potential
                    AS Soon As He
                    Gets His Head Out

                    Of His Butt Trying
                    To Accomplish Revenge
                    Of The Nerds From Wedgies

                    Given
                    In Youth

                    Fortunately For
                    me i Sprouted up
                    To Nearly 6 Feet
                    Tall In 8th Grade

                    Yes “They”
                    Still Gave me

                    Verbal Hell Yet
                    Folks Tend Not to
                    Get into Physical
                    Conflicts With Who

                    They Must Look

                    Up
                    To Hehe 🌳
                    Although i
                    Only Weighed
                    120 Pounds Then
                    Half Of my 111 Kilograms
                    Now Still Leg Pressing up

                    To 1520 Pounds
                    At 62 No Longer

                    Hehe Do Peers
                    Call me Bird Legs

                    And i Fly On Terrestrial
                    Land Dancing With Wings

                    Like An
                    18-Wheeler
                    Off-Road Baby 🛻

                    Indeed We Do Currently
                    LiVE iN A World Ruled By
                    Aspergerian Flavored

                    Revenge

                    Of The Nerds
                    From Gates To Jobs
                    To Zuckerberg To Musk

                    And Truly
                    So Many

                    More
                    “Under
                    Cover” For Real 🤓😎🧐🕵️‍♂️

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                    2. Oh Lord The Joys of
                      Living On Mars
                      Good Luck
                      In Assigning
                      A New Special
                      Interest To ‘Nerds’

                      Since Musk
                      Took Over
                      Multiple
                      Solicitations
                      From Naked
                      Women Even
                      With Sensitive
                      Content Turned
                      Off With Multiple
                      E-Mail Notifications

                      Ain’t Gonna Lie
                      Some of The
                      “Headers”
                      Are Hilarious
                      Click Bait Like

                      “Grannies
                      Without Panties”

                      Obviously
                      They Don’t
                      Know LiVE iN

                      ‘Eve’
                      For
                      Real
                      Yawn HAha 😂

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      2. Butterfly And Humming Bird
        Wings Dance And Sing Free Yes!

        Hehe Hey if They Will Make iT All
        The Way ACRoSS The Gulf of Mexico

        Into South America i WiLL Be Able

        to “Fred 14:12” More

        HAha At Least

        Online mY FRiEnD

        So i ‘Just Do it’ BarefooT AGAiN

        Additionally Only Around 8,000
        Public Dancing Miles to Make it Around The Girth
        of The Earth Closer to The Equator Where You Live

        Yet True it Takes 111 Months So Far More Than Just

        One Weather
        And Season

        of Butterfly
        And Humming Bird

        Wings Free

        at
        Least
        For me too..:)

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          1. True “Size Matters
            Not” Attributing
            To Humming
            Bird Wings
            Dancing
            Singing
            Coast
            To Coast
            SPiRiT
            Of Humming
            Bird Radios 📻
            Finely Tuning 🙌
            Wings of Dance 🏝

            And 🌊
            Song 🙏
            Free ☺️
            Long Distance ☎️
            Underdogs Indeed 🏅
            Winning 🏆 With SMiles

            A Real
            Flash Dance 🪩

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