Some win, Some loose to win.
“Mom, What is more important in life? Losing or Winning?”
“Of course winning, son. Else, no one would respect you.”
Most of us would have got this from our parents, teachers, friends, guardians and whoever. We hear about all the people who have won. When we sit in a gathering, every one speaks about the winners. In your family circle, the winner, your cousin, your sister, brother is the most spoken about. Does that make you a loser?
Well I used to feel that way and many of you agree that you too at one point would have felt the same. However, I had a belief.
A belief that, winning is not as important as loosing. Winning is just a collection of loses which teaches you valuable lessons. Nobody talks about the amount of pain, grief a person had to overcome to hear that magic word, “winner”.
First thing that one needs to know in life is not winning. First thing one needs to know is ‘LOSING’. Losing badly. Second thing one need to understand is that, ‘you might lose, but you are not a loser”.
SRK puts it in a better way, “Sports teaches you to lose but not to become a loser”. Even before the tournament started, the fans burnt effigy’s over controversial moves. Experts criticized the owners. Deccan chargers charged over them in the first match, Royal challengers challenged their existence, Dare devils scared the hell out of them. The world poured all its filthy comments on the team, management, the players and the owner. They lost. They kept loosing. Some close encounters, some terrible loses.
People who had 1 milligram knowledge of cricket were suggesting the shots that should have been played, the ball that was not of right length.
Did that make them losers? No. They went on. Like true professionals. Picking up the remains, sweating and practicing every day hoping that someday, they would be in a better situation. That’s the trait of a true professional. Result? The last two matches. Out of nowhere, they successfully chased the highest total in IPL this year and in their next match they out played the last years IPL champions, Rajasthan royals. Now, that’s what I call loosing but not being the loser.
Similarly in life we lose. People don’t speak about you. People don’t ask about you. Let’s remember on thing, “we might have lost, but we are not losers”.
I would like to end this post with a thought from Theodore Roosevelt. This is posted in SRK’s blog (really inspiring and motivating) as well. I loved it. I simply couldn’t resist posting it her for you,
It is not the critic who counts;
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
Who strives valiantly;
Who errs, who comes short again and again,
Because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
But who does actually strive to do deeds;
Who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
Who spends himself in a worthy cause;
Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
And who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know
Victory nor Defeat.
Note: For those of you who obviously think that I am advertising my favorite actor. It’s easier for me to say, yes I am. But not an actor, a good human being with wonderful thoughts.
God bless
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