Are you proud to be a loser?

So, winners can be losers and losers can be winners. It all is a matter of attitude. As illustrated earlier, we all start as losers, but one is adjudged a winner. You may be the defending champion, so what! This is a new competition, a new arena, new rules, and hence new challenges. It is important for that person to get back to the original loser state and be hungry to prove themselves to the world again.

The biggest hurdle in this is perhaps the media hype that surrounds the so called winners. The media does it to dish out some so called interesting stuff for the couch potatoes, but this hype gets to the head of the champion and they already start behaving like winners, thus entering a state of over confidence and complacency.

Just take a look at most of the world championships (team sport or individual sport) and look at the upsets / surprises that you get. Most of the times the defending champions (winners) tend to be bitten or beaten by some underdog. Some stage a come back (our club of losers), while some stage shows (the so called illusionary winners). Sports, Entertainment, Politics and Religion -- there are examples you can narrate.

Taking a cue out of this, we are engulfed by Reality shows as couch potatoes and live it by the moment. Reality shows are churning `winners’ by the hour and they fade into oblivion in minutes, because the decision about their talent is made in seconds. Impulsiveness can never judge class (stuff) – for class (substance) is permanent.

The important lesson is to not get carried away and to keep persisting – yes we all want to win, but don’t get into the state of being winners – Proud to be a LOSER!