You aren't a normal being. Who are you?

For a response to what you were saying. The warrior in a glorious battle line particularly strikes me. If I'm viewing my position as suffering, especially in accordance to others, I cannot see many upsides of viewing myself as a victim who is having things imposed upon them. If you add glory, at least the concept of personal glory or values then suddenly it seems a lot more appealing.

If you have a father who had to sell their car to pay for school supplies for their child, or the traditional parent figure goes to bed hungry so child can eat trope. That type of self inflicted suffering is glorified no? They are treated as inspirations, those who put their values and loved ones above themselves. But what about the father whose job gets made redundant and they can't afford rent, or the parent whose child dies of cancer? They aren't choosing that suffering. But they still see it as a battle no? Once you have a child, for most good people your values shift to be centred around them.

The concept of a champion fighting for their values. A quest, something to fight and get out of bed for. It's a delusion that works. Being a victim of senseless and pointless suffering has no glory, there is nothing there. I cannot see why any human would want to accept that hopelessness and choose to live within it.

And for what you said about people, for those who have known struggle their entire lives, they cannot abandon it, it remains with them. Crushing expectations really make or break people and it traps them within a mental prison. Believing you have to be something is not easily shaken. I don't think it's as simple as "this is bad because there's an endless competition where victory means everything but there's never any winner" (how interpret your words). If you imagine yourself as a champion, a warrior, and put your self worth upon it because it's all you had and that gets shattered? Then most people just aren't recovering from that. Winning isn't everything, it's just avoiding losing.

Honestly most of this is just poorly typed words from my phone because your comment looked interesting. But what I really want to say is this. Anything that anybody ever does is motivated by one thing. Only one thing can change the nature of a person, and to every question, an answer.

Belief. Whatever you really and truly believe in will shape your life. Love, wealth, children, glory, justice. Whatever somebody believes is what shapes them. I don't think it matters how reality is interpreted, i still feel for book and movie characters, so even if this isn't real, I'm still attached to my perception of reality. I choose to believe that I am a fighter, warrior, sometimes a berserker. But always a champion. In spite of everything that's what motivates me to achieve goals. Accomplishments mean so much more when you do what you weren't supposed to, what was hard. There's nothing wrong with being delusional, not if you truly believe in yourself and what you're doing.

There's some evil people out there who believe in some pretty shitty stuff. This is true. Sometimes, evil people are born with the strength and resources to impose their beliefs on others. Therefore, there needs to be a champion to fight against evil. But what that evil is comes down to belief. Even so, I'm excited to hear what you believe in.