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Compatitions are bad or good?

I think everyone has, at least once, participated in a competition, tried something new, and felt the typical competition adrenaline. Those who have participated in competitions more times have experienced both the good and the bad sides of it. Like everything, competitions also have two sides: the good side, when you feel like you are the best on this earth, you can achieve anything, you could go to Harvard because you are the best. It feels like a dream, and you want to make it happen again, to feel that happiness and satisfaction again. It’s like a drug; you want it again, and again, and again.

But this isn’t that simple. There is also the bad side of it: when you lose. It feels like all your late-night study sessions went to waste, all the hours you spent training, learning, and exercising were in vain. Of course, they aren’t, because the knowledge you’ve gained will stay with you for life, but at that moment, it’s important to be very conscious and realize this.

In life, we have to learn both: how to stay humble and modest but still be proud when you win, and how to be disappointed but persistent when you lose. That is life. It’s all about balance. No one can always be up. It’s like a roller coaster: sometimes up, sometimes down. It’s funny, but competitions are the perfect metaphor for life.

In the last two weeks, I felt like the pin button was at 0, and I was at -10. I hope this demonstrates my feelings. I lost a lot of competitions, and what I learned didn’t seem like enough. I felt terrible. I started to tell myself, "You can’t do it, you aren’t capable of this or that," and when I didn’t get into a novel writing competition, that was the final blow. After that, I cried for a day. A whole day. Then I looked at myself in the mirror, and my first thought was, "Whooo, what am I doing?" I looked ridiculous. I was so sad because I didn’t get into some competitions, where I had participated for the first time. It was my fault, yes, and I messed up, but I can’t punish myself forever and mess up another competition.

Now, I know that I need to sit down and learn more for the next competition; it’s not just "general knowledge." But I can’t give up because imagine where the world would be if everyone gave up after a failure... of anything. So I sat down and wrote myself a plan on how I would win in the next three months and what I would do differently this time.

So, my only advice to you all is to learn how to win and how to lose. If you lose, and if you need it, spend a day being sad and indulging in self-pity, but don’t waste too much time on it. Life never stops.


                                                                                                                               Hope that I helped!

                                                                                                                                        XOXO

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