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Better Luck Next Time
You step up to the plate. The bat feels like a weight in your hands. You readjust your cap to shield you from the sun. It is a hot and sticky day in May. The pitcher throws the ball and you bring the bat forward//. Klink//! You start to run only to realize it was a fowl. "Strike one!" the umpire screams. You totally miss you second and third try. But walking back to the dugout you're not depressed. If anything, you're happy. You don't care what your teammates will say. You now know you have to work on your hitting. There's no pressure. You did your best and that's all you should care about. So better luck next time. This is how it always should be in life. Winning isn't everything. Who cares about the score as long as you tried your best.A meteorite isn't going to hit you if you lose one game. If you win you win. If you don't you don't. You can try again.

One reason it's bad to think winning is everything is that thinking winning is everything leads to poor sportsmanship. That's basically when some athlete with an overactive ego can't accept the fact that someone beat his greatness. Poor sportsmanship can be anything from a simple "stupid" to bat throwing. Just accept that someone will eventually beat you. It's the sad but true circle of life. Some people are so wrapped up in winning that if they lose, instead of just letting it go when they lose, they seek revenge on whoever they lost to. Other times, two best friends will be put on different softball teams and the mere idea of one person losing to the other can ruin their friendship. Although you may think competition makes people work harder, too much competition could have hazardous an unintended results. A third example is that people will cheat to win. If it's the last week before the playoffs, a person might do anything to win, such as sticking pine tar on a bat to make the ball they hit go further. And what does that do? It ensures your team one more game that they must win in order to move to the next must win game. That is //if// you don't get caught. A small amount of people might even stop at nothing to win. They can get pretty vicious to the point of hurting the other team. You know where some people who take winning too seriously end up? //Jail.//

Another reason is that you can learn form your mistakes. If your basketball teams always wins, and you're not one of the ones helping them win, then you'll never know how to improve your performance. Everyone has lost at least once in life. The only people who haven't are newborn babies. Even Donald Trump has lost at least one "battle." Some people might think that's the coaches job, but some coaches can be so wrapped up in winning, that they only focus on the best five kids on the team. Some people got famous for always winning. But is that really the case. Steve Jobs might think that everything has to be perfect and that you always have to be number one, however with all his hard work and devotion he would have been more of a winner if he'd taken away his perfection policy and replaced it with a simple lets place our product out now just the ways it is, and see what the consumers say. Lastly, what's a practice for? It's for practicing. You'll never know what the group as a whole should specifically practice if you always win. You can always split the team in two and play practice games can't you? Well you //could//. But then when you go against the next team who has just previously lost and pinpointed what they needed to work on. And you've just been playing silly games with your friends for the past week at practice where it didn't madder who won because you're all on the same team. Well, look at your odds.

You might think that winning is everything, for instance for a job; however the pressure of winning can make people nervous and/or crazed and that may effect whether they get the job or not. An thinking you have to win makes you over confident. Then when you lose you take it harder than someone who just says, "I'll give it my best shot, and see what happens." Also winning can cause health problems. Have you ever heard of some athlete who does crazy things to their body to make them faster or stronger. That's going to hurt them later in life. It's not just grownups, it's kids too. The pressure of winning can make kids sleep deprived since all of their time is consumed with practicing whatever they do, and trying to catch up on schoolwork. This also effects how they do in school. That brings me to my last example. If people are so caught up in winning they might lose focus on other things, such as school. If you have a family to support you shouldn't go blowing all your money on buying 1000 lottery tickets in hope of winning the jackpot. In the end, only one lottery number wins the big one. Why spend all your money when the there's still less than a twenty percent chance it could be you. Your family is more important.

Winning isn't always the best thing. Besides creating poor sportsmanship, nothing to help you improve, and tons of pressure, it can also be subjective or thousands of other things. For instance if someone won only because they bribed the judge. If we look back at our baseball story, even a friendly game of baseball has its downfalls such as a fight between two players as to whether an umpire's call was right or not. It's possible that winning can effect a person's career, but if you really work hard to achieve something it doesn't matter if you don't win the first time because eventually if you work hard enough you will. What about Sara Tucholsky. She hit a home run and then hurt her knee running to first base. She felt so much pain that all she could do was hug the base, and no one on her team was supposed to help her or it would only count as a two run single. But two girls from the other team choose character and doing the right thing over winning. They asked the umpire if they could carry her around the bases and he said yes. All the fans in the stands actually got teary eyed when she reached home. Some people may argue that this proves that winning is everything because she got the home run and her team won the game, however if you look at the other team's point of view they wanted to win just as much. But, those two girls knew that winning isn't everything and therefore they carried her around the bases to preserve her first and last home run.