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Lose is the New Win.
I am not afraid … I was born to do this
– Joan of Arc
I knew a girl who said she hated life and hated to be alive. No, she's not my friend. I read that off her online journal that another friend has handed me. In that same entry, she claimed to have a job that gives her a stable income, has a group of friends that stood by her through the tough and has a family who provides a promising shelter over her head. Really, she is just a pathetic soul. This will be the first and the last I am reading her journal.
I had a friend who loves his life and wished he had more than 24 hours a day. He is an amazing man with a gift for writing. He was brought up in a single parent environment and struggled financially to see himself through his varsity studies. Still, he was thankful that life has given him many opportunities to prove himself to the society. He was labeled the crème of the crop in his cohort. To him, he was not disadvantaged in any means. The challenges only made him stronger.
We often miss the missing the turning points of many things we thought weren't worth the wait. Sometimes, it only takes a little patience to find it waiting in your path. The end of a storm brings the start of a new moment. Don’t they always say that rainbows appear after the rain? Hey, I believe in that. Naïve? Nah-uh. Sometimes with faith, things just fall into place.
In a game of snake and ladder of 4 players, there can only be a winner. The other 3 are deemed the losers. Loser is just another name in the game. The underlying meaning is, “a step away from winning.” Wouldn’t this make the underlying meaning of winner, “a step ahead of losing”?
One fall in life does not equate to bound-to-fall-for-the-rest-of-your-life. Each fall only make us tougher, not something to be ashamed of. It's how you pick yourself up again. So what if we win all the time? We only get to taste the winning glory, momentarily. Be thankful we get the chance to fall in life to learn - never to make the same mistake twice. This learning journey takes time. But how much time can we afford in life? Or, does the society give us enough room to experience the fall?
Strive to succeed but never be disheartened if we don’t. Everyone says that. But hey, to lose is to gain. They open doors to new experiences. And the cycle repeats.
Every minute is worth the live.
Lose is the New Win.
I am not afraid … I was born to do this
– Joan of Arc
I knew a girl who said she hated life and hated to be alive. No, she's not my friend. I read that off her online journal that another friend has handed me. In that same entry, she claimed to have a job that gives her a stable income, has a group of friends that stood by her through the tough and has a family who provides a promising shelter over her head. Really, she is just a pathetic soul. This will be the first and the last I am reading her journal.
I had a friend who loves his life and wished he had more than 24 hours a day. He is an amazing man with a gift for writing. He was brought up in a single parent environment and struggled financially to see himself through his varsity studies. Still, he was thankful that life has given him many opportunities to prove himself to the society. He was labeled the crème of the crop in his cohort. To him, he was not disadvantaged in any means. The challenges only made him stronger.
We often miss the missing the turning points of many things we thought weren't worth the wait. Sometimes, it only takes a little patience to find it waiting in your path. The end of a storm brings the start of a new moment. Don’t they always say that rainbows appear after the rain? Hey, I believe in that. Naïve? Nah-uh. Sometimes with faith, things just fall into place.
In a game of snake and ladder of 4 players, there can only be a winner. The other 3 are deemed the losers. Loser is just another name in the game. The underlying meaning is, “a step away from winning.” Wouldn’t this make the underlying meaning of winner, “a step ahead of losing”?
One fall in life does not equate to bound-to-fall-for-the-rest-of-your-life. Each fall only make us tougher, not something to be ashamed of. It's how you pick yourself up again. So what if we win all the time? We only get to taste the winning glory, momentarily. Be thankful we get the chance to fall in life to learn - never to make the same mistake twice. This learning journey takes time. But how much time can we afford in life? Or, does the society give us enough room to experience the fall?
Strive to succeed but never be disheartened if we don’t. Everyone says that. But hey, to lose is to gain. They open doors to new experiences. And the cycle repeats.
Every minute is worth the live.
Till then.
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