Are we ready to lose?

Whenever we do something, knowingly or unknowingly, we give needless importance to winning. The attitude, I mean here is that of mainly "not losing", saving our faces.

What is that, that makes us feel humiliated at the mere thought of losing? It is not losing that should make us feel inglorified and humiliated but the fear of losing should indeed.

Yes, winning, being the best, getting to the podium, wearing a gold medal is all that would make you beam in the limelight. You would hear a roaring applause. You will be on cloud nine. Great, isn't it? THE ideal world.

But, but, if you really strive hard to be successful. I mean truly successful. Not the one which others praise and sing an ode on you and make you imagine to be successful. It is what you feel inside. If, that is what you are working towards, believe me, you need to be ready and accept to lose. Even to lose BIG TIME.

This is not being pessimistic. It is not being mediocre. It is striving hard to be the best of what you could be in your lifetime. Take anyone, ANYONE, who have reached the pinnacle of glory by their sheer talent/brilliance without losing.

If they had, I bet they didn't venture in to things they should have if they had wanted to be the best of what they could have been.

The best sportsmen, the best actors, the best painters, the best dramatists, the best politicians, the best bloggers, the best entrepreneurs, all failed BIG TIME atleast once in their lifetimes.

See, I don't mean to say, that in the fields they chose to shine, they failed big time. They would surely have failed in anything in their lives that made them what they were and are. The losing would have been the best thing that could have happened to them.

As a child you could have lost big time when you played for your school in the the sports meet. But that losing is what you should have been ready for. If you weren't you would have quit and the world had missed the next Sachins and Johnsons.

If you are really after something, you wouldn't mind losing. Losing is a part and parcel of growth and honing your talent. If you want always to win. It is better you stay where you are right now. Good or bad, stay where you are. Don't try anything new.

Guts, strength, attitude to try anything NEW, needs an acceptance of the possibility of failing in what you are upto. If you fear, shiver, tremble at the thought of failing, please feel free to come to a conclusion of you being successful(imaginatively).

People who seem to be successful and who had gone great distances and people who are yet to begin their life journeys, people who are to start answering their crying passions within, all, know whether they are doing something to grow and whether they are truly successful, whether they are really LIVING what they were meant to live using one simple measuring tool and that is...

by answering to "Am I ready to LOSE?"