Graciously Losing

"One shall stand, one shall fall", a famous quote by my hero Optimus Prime. Someone has to win and someone has to lose, no middle ground what so ever. Losing is something that we see as a bad thing. In war it means returning home empty handed and nothing accomplished and with thousands of deaths. You see I suppose society today puts too much emphasis on winning. Everyone wants to win whether it may be a war or something as simple (yet very trivial) as the lottery. I know I may have wrote about this a while back, but its come up again in my life. Recently my friends (who are also my roomates) got me back into Starcraft. We hold LAN games between the four of us or more when we feel like it. To be honest I'm not all that great, plus its been a while since I've played. I usually get the beat down both online and offline when it comes to games like this.

But you know what, its all right with me. I play to have fun, while the entire atmosphere is competitive in the end I just take it my pride's not hurt and I had a good time and its GG with my roomies. Sure people say that you should learn from these losses, thats true in some situations however the point I'd like to make is that we need to not see losing as a bad thing. I've seen lots of people lose and learn nothing from it, they just get really mad and hate the winner. You see nobody wants to lose, because it usually means that the loser ends up feeling worst about failing. In some cases there needs to be one winner and one loser. What we need is to realize that losses aren't a bad thing, it's as long as both competitors walk away with a sense of satisfaction that they gave it their all and in the end if they won or loss it all comes down to regretting nothing.

So the next time you ever fail or feel that you just can't do anything about a losing streak, just remember do all that you can and never regret taking a challenge.

Oh yeah, this is my 100th post, wootz cheerz *throws confetti and vaccums it up. I'll see my readers in post 200.