winners and losers

Winners and losers

A casual look at the world reveals that there is a competition everywhere. This is evident in every day life, ranging form games to work. There seems to be one mad rush everywhere we try to "succeed". Often it does not matter to us who persihes while we succeed or "win". It does not matter who "lose" as long as it is not we who lose. This mad rush in every areas of life divides the world into winners and losers. Almost every ne is to be befriended or ostracised; to be emulated or advoided. One is prompted to ask : is winning and losing really important? Is being a winner or loser all there is to life?

If we listen to stories by so-called successful people we see that not all of them consider themselves "winners". Frequently, there have been case where people who have been labelled successful businessmen have lost their familes through divource; or have lost their health through overworking to gather wealth. Can we call such people winners? The people do not think so. One such person Elvis Presely. In the world of pop musice, he was "the king". A definite winner, but alas, his personal life was far form successful. He lost his family, his ealth and died miserably from drug overdoese. His end was pitiful, yet he had vast wealth at his disposal. One is sure that the "king" would have galdly traded all his wealth for a loving family life.

Of course, this is not to say that it is good or even acceptable to be a "loser". NO one should be poor or a failure in life. It is of no credit to anyone if he were to live form hand to mouth, or be homeless or be sick or unsuccessful in family life. In fact with all the joy and happiness we see in the world around us is an insult to humanity that there should be people who are poor or "losers" in life. However, the fact remains that not many people who consider themselves "losers" actually are. Many people who call themselves losers because they did not win what they set out to, are winners - if only they could take honest looks at their situations. For example, people who come in second place in Olympic events brust into tears- apparently becasuse they did not become no one. Can they be considered losers? Surely it is a sign of success that they are in the second place - in comparison to many others. They should simply congratulate the person in the first place and still conside themselves as winners to some degree.

Recently there was an amusing advertisement. A lady observes that there are only 12 supermodels in the world and two billion women who are not. Surely, they are not all losers; then again they are not without beauty. NONE of us have to be winners or losers. We should be contented enought to be ordinary humans in this beautiful world and find happiness in small things, like the smile of a child or the fragrance of a flower or the smoothness of a stone on the beach. Life is certainly not only for those considered "winners" by popular standards; nor is life to be exculded for so - called "losers". Life is for ALL of us. We do not have to follow the popular tendency to label people as "winners and losers".