Winning+is+everything

=//Why Win When Losing Rewards//=

==You are in a dance competition behind the local library. You look at your friends and they get that you want them to cheat for you. Hold up. If your in this position would you really fell good about yourself if you cheated? I think not. In my opinion, winning may not be everything and you should really think about what you are about to do if you know you're cheating.==

==One of the first things that can prove winning is not everything is it can lead to suspicions. For example, if you win too much and don't want to lose you will cheat just to get a little win. Also, a famous basketball player, Kobe Bryant, thinks that if he doesn't win it's a disappointment, so he likes to do some cheap plays to other players to get some easy baskets for himself. Kobe Bryant would also flop, or fake a hit and fall down. Also, something like this happened not too long ago when Lance Armstrong kept winning to many Tour de France so people got suspicious about him winning. He even lied to press and said no that he never took drugs, but not that long ago like a month and finally admitted that he took drugs to win. Just these facts alone tell why winning is not everything.==

==Being too cocky is another reason why you shouldn't push yourself to win. Like you can actually get worse at the sport or event you are doing because you think you are the greatest of all time. Another reason why being too cocky is bad because you can underestimate your opponents so if you really want to win you will lose because of this. Also, in my own experience in our first basketball we won 44-18 and then our second game we lost by a lot. Just to tell you the score 36-48 and we just underestimated the other team so we lost. In a matter of 10 minutes during the game we knew it was over. This could be another way why winning is not everything.==

==You know what else is a good reason why winning is not everything? It is that losing actually shows your weaknesses. How you may ask? Well is can make you learn from your mistakes that you made. Like for example, in basketball if you had way too many turnovers you might what to think of making smarter passes if you want to cut down on the turnovers. Another example for basketball is you have the ball in the last seconds, you put up the shot and miss. This proves that winning is not everything because then you would work on your shot. Also, losing games can make you stronger like if you would have been afraid of your match up, you can now get stronger by playing him or her a lot tougher than you did the other game. Getting better from losing just sums it all up that winning is not the most important thing in the world.==

==I really hope that if you were in a dance competition you would tell your friends not to cheat for you. Also, you should understand that not everyone wins and should not freak out if you do lose. But would you actually feel good about yourself if you cheated? Do you think it would be necessary? How would you feel if you would have been in the other people's shoes? You should be asking yourself these questions before you are tempted to cheat. You could be upset after a loss but what you do is keep your head up and show good sportsmanship to the other team. After every loss you do have you should always shake hand to the opponent and say good game to them. Maybe losing can force you not to be lackadaisical, or lazy because you will strive to become a lot better than before. Even though winning gives you a great sensation to yourself and mindset, losing can always give you advice that winning can't do.==