lm115+Winning+is+Everything

==You step up to take the foul shot in the last game of the season. The ball sits in your hand feeling like a cold boulder. You look up and the basket is a mile away. . As you dribble the ball you think to yourself "//If I make this shot I win for the whole team//." You don't want to let them down so try your hardest. You shoot, you score, and the crowd goes wild! Someone will always to win or lose. In some cases this may depend on if you get the job or get to play for the team. So if you want to reach the top you have to climb there. That is why I believe winning is everything.==

== One reason winning is everything is it can make you successful. Think of all those famous sports stars, lawyers, or even artists. They all won at least once in their lives to get where they wanted to be. Think of the //39 Clues//. If Dan and Amy won they would be incredibly rich! Winning also feels good. When you win it boosts your self confidence to try and win again. It makes you work harder to reach that goal. You may think that winning doesn't matter as long as you had fun, but it's a real world out there, and if you don't win, someone will beat you to it. ==

==Another reason is most jobs require winning. Lets say you apply to work at the local school as a teacher. Your resume is good, but so is everyone elses. Out of the 400 resumes the school receives you want to be the one chosen. You might think to yourself that the need to win may cause people to do bad things, however many people use their talents and things they love to drive themselves to the victory line. Take Van Gogh as and example. He used what he loved and his talents to become and amazing artist. He painted beautiful pictures with textured, small strokes with much detail. Winning may even have an outcome that is for the greater good. Such as in history Abraham Lincoln had to win for the better of the people. He won and freed many, many slaves. Also if you are a professional sports star if you don't ever win you may even be kicked off the team. To most people, their jobs won't last without them winning sometimes.==

==Winning can also get you a Scholarship. Everyone wants a scholarship, and winning is the perfect way to get one. A scholarship can save you money or even get you to college free or with a huge discount. In this way many, many kids are applying to Princeton or Rutgers, or whatever college and using their sports, science, math, and overall talents to get a scholarship. As you compete to get the spot, you want to win. Some people may think that winning isn't everything because it creates a non-competitive environment and teaches kids that it is okay to lose, but really it is just telling kids to give up. To win you have to really work at something and give it your all. ==

==You're on a team in the professional soccer league. Your team loses every single time. Let's face it your team isn't too good, but you still love the sport. As the season goes on your team seems to be getting worse and worse. Well it is a possibility that your team from losing too much just doesn't try anymore. Then it comes, your last game. The score is tied and you have a chance, you kick the ball as far as possible and it lands smack in the middle of the goal. You won! How does it feel to give that last winning shot. Good? Great? Amazing? All of the above probably. You may believe that well maybe the team is just not good, or they have no skills, but if they try really hard they can achieve impossible. This shows how good winning feels. I know I have mentioned this before, but it is true. Winning just feels good.==

==Not everyone believes winning is everything, but I do. It teaches kids not to give up, and try hard, that way they will go far in life. It teaches people to reach for their goals. A few losses could never hurt, but if you don't always give it your all you've already lost the game. Do you want to be the person who loses all the time? Of course you don't. That is why I am telling you this. For most everything in life winning is everything.==