se115 Winning+is+everything

=**Losers Live the Life**= == Good job, you showed them how to do a back flip at your gymnastics meet ! Nice, you just hit a home run and we won the playoffs! Your soccer team won three to zero! Winning may have a rush of excitement. Who says I am going to play but I don't want to win? Every game has a winner and everyone wants to be the lucky one holding t he golden ticket. But, is it everything? From my perspective, even though winning is fun and exciting, it is not everything in the world.==

==One reason why winning is not everything is because you need friends and happiness to have a nice life. Harriet Tubman may have won her freedom to not be a slave anymore, but she did not just go enjoy her achievement. She actually went back to help free her slaves and other people, instead of relaxing and celebrating her win. As a matter of fact if she did not loose and become a slave she would of never of won and saved others. In the //Hunger Games,// if Katniss did not become friends with Peeta the story probably would not be the same. Both of them helped each other in different ways, and if they did not put both of their strengths together one of them probably would not of came out alive. Some times it is fun to feel like you accomplished an obstacle by your self, but in other cases you need someone by your side to help you. You may win everything and enjoy your accomplishments, but if you do not have any companions to celebrate your victory with is it worth winning. Imagine having a life with no friends. Don't your friends push you to do better? Friends are their for support and self-improvement. How will you do that without friends?==

==Poor sportsmanship will happen and is another reason why winning is not everything. Did you see what happened to Lance Armstrong? Lance Armstrong got all of his awards taken away because of him doping to win all the competitions. He was going with this scam for so long and it ruined his life and others could have won far and square. To increase red blood sells, Erythropoietin injected into his blood stream. He also put his life in danger while doing this because it thickens their blood and slows down your heart. Along with many more drugs. If you cheat it may not only hurt you, but it can hurt others too. Say if, an athlete take drugs and dies, it will hurt their family too. When you are cheating and not being fair, most likely people will not be friends with you. Imagine a world were everyone is cheating. Softball is a sport that I love and if my coach loves to win too much we probably would not have the best reputation. My coaches would add one or more runs to our team in the score book, steel bases that we are not suppose to, and run even though we got our second strike and the catcher missed the ball. It may be fun to win, but do you think it is worth cheating.==

==Another reason is that you could loose focus on other activities. If someone is very into sports they may forget to do their school work or may not have time. In my school, they are aware that when pupils do a ton of activities they get behind in school. Our rule is that if you have a C in a class you are not allowed to participate in activities that Bedminster School offers. All the principal is doing is trying to persuade students into caring about their grades and school work. If Ponce de Leon, a famous explorer who was looking for the Fountain of Youth, if he actually found the Fountain of Youth Florida would of never been discovered. He could not afford loosing focus, so he did not stress over it and just hoped he found something. Sports are great and fun, but don't you want to be well rounded.==

==Even though winning is something we strive for and try very hard to do, sometimes it is good to have friendship or relationships. If a lawyer did not win a case he won't make as much money, but do you think when he looses he makes a big hissy fit? Last time I checked, they were calm especially if they knew their client did it. Fame and fortune comes with winning, but friends do not. Michael Jordan once said, "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." If Michael Jordan thinks that if he loses to succeed than why shouldn't we. He is a role model and realizes to get to the top you have to kiss the bottom. Would you like to live in a world were everyone is cheating? Everyone knows the fairy tale //Humpty Dumpty//; if Humpty Dumpty did at lose and fall no story would be here for us to read. For the sake of competitive humans all around the world, winning should never become everything.==