Winning and Losing

I've heard many people say, "Winning is everything." But really is winning EVERYTHING? Honestly I don't think so because you can learn so many things from losing. Of course no one likes to lose, but nobody is perfect and can win all the time. I'll admit that I'm a sore loser, I absolutely HATE losing. After losing a game I'm not in a very good mood and I'll take out my anger on anyone who tries talking to me. But on the other hand I also feel like I get something out of losing. It shows me what our team needs to work on as a whole and what I need to work on individually. If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

Too bad things can't be how they used to be when we were 5 years old. We would play t-ball but no one kept score we just played for the fun of it. Even in parks and recreation we played because we loved hanging out with our friends and playing a sport that we fell in love with. Ever since I was about 6 years old or even younger, basketball became my favorite sport. I would carry my basketball with me everywhere I went. I played every single day that I could and then my dream was that I wanted to play basketball in college and if I could go even farther than college I would. This dream started to fade away once my sophomore year in high school came. Let me cut the story short... We didn't win too many games and like I said before, I HATE LOSING! So after each loss, my love for the game kept decreasing and decreasing. Now I'm in the middle of my Junior year and I don't even like playing basketball anymore because of all the losing.

I also play softball and we have a very good team. Softball in La Junta is very well known and it is like a habit for us to go to state every year. We love to win and when you win, your love for the game increases. I started off playing softball just because it was pretty fun but I never thought about playing after high school. Winning never gets old for me and because we win in softball I love the sport so much! It's hard to say if winning is everything because in life your always trying to win. You want to beat another person out for a job or you want to win the lottery. People have a lot more fun when they win but there can never be 2 winners in the same game. One team gets the win, one team gets the loss... You can learn from both winning and losing.

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
~Michael Jordan~