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Losing Leads to Winning

“...What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, stand a little taller…,” Sorry just jamming out to Kelly Clarkson, but this song does make you think. And it makes me think about winning and losing.

Do you think winning is everything?Probably not. Because winning isn’t everything. Yeah it may be important, but the world will still go on if you lose one basketball game. And if you don’t get a home run in a softball r baseball game nothing will happen, yeah you may feel sad or angry, but you will get over it. Is winning everything? I think not.

When you lose at first it might seem like fire is burning a hole in your stomach. Trust me we have all been there, I know how you feel. But, losing can make you work harder to win. Winning is usually just the ultimate goal, but losing can teach you something about being a good sport. And even if you lose, at least you still have fun. Even though losing isn’t exactly an ice cream sundae, losing will help you benefit in the game.

Usually winning is just a self goal because there is a prize if you win or because people are way too competitive. To me winning is somewhat important, and yes, I know I’m kind of going against what I have said, but that’s because I am competitive as well. There is a little tiger in all of us that wants to win everything, but I have learned to tame it, and others have too. My basketball team went 7:3 for the season, and i realized that the world will still go round if you don’t win, so it really isn’t a big deal if you lose, and like I said before it only matters if you had fun.

If you care too much about winning it could literally drive you crazy. And if you are so involved with winning then it will make you worry too much and you can get stressed out. Also, if your team is undefeated, you might get hung up in all the excitement and get cocky and when you lose, you will get really mad and then you will make yourself crazy. My softball team is undefeated, and to us, unfortunately, to us winning is everything, and we just tied, and made me crazy, but I realized that we are still undefeated and it doesn’t matter if you lose one game or all the games, it doesn’t matter because at least you still had fun.

As you can see winning isn’t everything. It is just an ultimate goal, and if you lose nothing will happen. Losing can help you work hard to win. And usually self goals will make you go crazy because you want to win so badly. So just have fun and don’t worry if you lose. As long as you tried your best, thats all that really matters.

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