Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts

3/22/10

More Important than Winning

In this life, people must face competition all the time. we fight, we struggle, we try hard, work like we're dying just to win the competition. we do, we give anything, the best of us, to become the winner. because no one of us would want to be the loser. (ehm, if there's anyone who wants to be a loser, that's none of my business LOL)

but, in some kind of competitions, not winning doesn't mean lose. loser is not appropriate to call a person who doesn't win the competition. furthermore, in any competitions, this 'loser' word is so very inappropriate. why? because people who don't win had made a start with all their strength and bravery. they had done their very best, they had worked so very hard to win. they gave everything, even sacrificed some most important things in their life, just to win. so, people who don't win actually are same skilled, trained, and capable as the winner.

or, they might be more.

why more? because the winner sometimes is not a person that this world really needs. even in this century, some evil and jerky people are used to play money politics to make them win. then the paid judges or audiences choose them as the winner for the money they accepted before. yuck, this situation is so very disgusting and gross, and anyone who won competitions by this dirty way are all cursed. especially people who don't really have skills and never ever try hard. yuck yuck yuck!

okay let's just forget about that money politics. let's just be focus to the winning-losing talks. in a competition, people are trying so very hard and sometimes overworking. there are also some people who had trained themselves since they were very young. and don't forget about natural talent that some people might have. these things can really influence appearance and performance of those people who compete. especially when they are asked to always be themselves all the time during the competition. they show whatever they are with all their skills, talents, and training results.

that is why, in such competition (or we are used to call it 'contest'), there are used to be some interesting, typical, and unique contestants. they naturally show who they are with no fear nor shame. and in this kinda contest too, we will often find some better contestants than the winner.

why is it so? there are so many factors depend on the judging system. but in the end, who will matter it? the world knows what it needs, what it really wants. no matter who the winner is, the better contestants are the ones who become the real stars.

so, is it now really important to be a winner? I don't think so. what we must do is just try hard to win the competition for sure, but more important for us to shine brighter than anyone with our own lights during the competition. then if we don't win the competition, the world will always remember us, remember what we've done during the competition. and remember, losing a competition is NOT that we are losers, because losers are people who never dare to make a start, always afraid to try and feeling incapable all the time, or they who play money-politics behind.

we are all stars, and we are twinkling with our own special lights.

3/15/10

Rival, Enemy, Friend

Human is a creature made with heart. by the heart, she/he can feel anything to anything and anyone. one feeling I notice here is hatred. we used to hate some people by some reasons. maybe they don't speak politely, maybe they're liars, maybe they whine too much, maybe they act real bad and hurt people we love, and still there are many reasons of hatred.

one reason I notice about this hatred is: because they do what we do, they love what we love, they can even do it better so that they conquer us.

yeah, we used to hate people because they have the same interest with us. and we'll hate them more when they take away something/someone we love, leave us alone with an unrequited feeling. we'll hate them more when they do things we do in some better ways. we'll hate them more when they feel what we feel in some more sincere ways.

in such condition, we might say that: "how come they get it? I am the one who deserves it more! they are not even qualified enough to have it!" but in the end we know we have to take things sincerely, and tell ourselves that 'something/someone' we love before might not be the best for us. might not be what we need, so that we didn't have it.

and then time goes by. things change. there comes a condition where our rival has lost that precious thing they had taken from us long ago. we might be surprised, or whatever, but eventually we will open the gate. we will throw away whatever distance between us and our rival. we will start talking to them, no matter how awkward it is. then we found out...we and our rival have lots of similarity. which had made us love and do the same thing in the old times.

we and our (ex) rival might spend some times together, talking, sharing about many things. maybe not about our competition in the past, but anything worth a lot more than that. even if it's about our competition, we'll just laugh about it, remind each other of how stupid we were, how silly things have been all the time.

the more we share, the more we might discover...that we and our rival are understanding each other so very well.

that is why, I think the statement on my favorite manga, Glass no Kamen, was right. it was said there that: my one and only rival is the one and only closest person to my heart.

really, I think it's truly true.