Tonight, my older brother Bobby is absent.

He's home from college for a week, and Tonight, my older brother Bobby is absent.

He's home from college for a week, and the word is he lost a tennis match to my younger brother, Mark.

It's not uncommon for one of us to skip dinner after a particularly embarrassing loss.

Sometimes it's better not to show up than to have to face

hearing your performance get ridiculed.

I look over, I see Mark grinning ear to ear.

He's the big winner tonight.

I know that feeling.

Winning is exhilarating.

But I know what else he's feeling too.

It's what I feel when I win.

Victory is exalting, but it's terrifying at the same time.

Special Olympics chairman Tim Schrever grew up with a very specific idea of what it means

to be a winner. As a member of the Kennedy family, he saw close relatives compete at the

highest level of politics and grew accustomed to a winner-takes-all mentality.

But as the years went on,

Tim began to question whether competition necessarily had to be that way,

or if there was perhaps a more fulfilling way to play.

In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories,

breathtaking music, and mindfulness prompts,

so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories.

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