“If winning isn’t everything, then why do they keep score?” –
Vince Lombardi
Maybe the question isn’t whether or not winning means
everything, whether success is a constant and necessary goal, but is instead, “Even
though they keep score, do we ever know who really wins?”After all, can we quantify our
lifetime achievement through a series of numbers and statistics, and truly be
satisfied by such? Of course winning in a game or sport, a closed-universe if
you will, is satisfying, but perhaps it is only so because such satisfaction in
unachievable in life. There’s no way to tally up a ‘score’ on your death bed,
and, in a world that seems possessed by the exact definitions of ‘win’ and ‘lose,’
such a proposition is honestly frightening. Maybe in reality, that’s why
winning is so important to some, to Mr. Lombardi. If so, though, could it not
be said that winning is, instead of something for the strong, a concession for
the weak, for those unable to face the subjectivity of the ever-changing world.
-Reid Williams
Winning isn't everything, sometimes its the efforts of a life's times work that says everything about a man or woman. To be a champion, one has to know how to accept defeat and grow from it as well as winning all the time. "Winners make it happen, losers let it happen." Dennis Wheatly
ReplyDeleteSamuel Nash III