Discovered Model Role Model Loser

Two Models that fit the bill in the Chronicles of a Loser -- Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, both losers in the competition they entered – Femina Miss India, and went on the win the Miss World titles. Both tried their hand at films – firstly the Tamil, and then the Hindi and tasted some success, but managed to stay in the limelight. They provide the impression of being winners.

Look at the two people who won in their times Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta respectively. Now get into comparing on career graphs, or popularity charts and you may want to debate as to who is the real loser.

This Winner Loser taxonomy is getting more and more complicated. Just to clarify our viewpoint – winners are complacent people; and losers are persistent in their efforts.

In life, we all start as losers, one wins. The others are consoled with a better luck next time. Some give up, some resolve to succeed. If the winner gives up (complacency) and gets over confident of repeating their feat, they end up being a loser.

Then it is like a game of snakes and ladders. There is the ladder at 21 that takes you to 82, but there is a snake at 93 that brings you to 39. Most of us get elated when we get the ladder at 21 and sometimes overturn the board when we hit the 93 syndrome. Our worry is that the opponent will win, we do not muster courage to claw back.

Our Model Role Models have had good ladders (successes), but also been bitten by snakes (setbacks), but persisted to taste periodic success to emerge as good examples.