By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
Sports have always provided us some great entertainment. Obsessed most of us may be with basketball, we try out something different every once in a while. A Filipino athlete in any sport, especially, will always bring in a new crowd. It’s a fun experience to see your team win. While others raise the stakes further and put their own money on the line. Losses, then cut a bit deeper, and hurts a whole lot more.
The very epitome of competitive spirits can always be seen live on tv. When players not only play for the fun of the game, but for their livelihoods. Their mentality could not be any different from the common person. Obsession with winning to the point where some people see it as disturbing, seeing big egos clash can both be very inspiring.
How tiring it may be though, to balance that focus on winning, and fight the other battles life throws at you.
Young people nowadays are tasked with juggling tasks and assignments coming from left and right, up and down. Times to wind-down are limited. There is competition within our own selves to always get those high grades, passing at least.
Competition everyday takes a heavy toll on the mind. When we start to think, winning and losing are the only outcomes to a day, those stockpiled defeats make it harder to stand back up again.
Not everyone wins every day but there is always something we can learn from days past. That is, if we don’t let losses take up too much space in our lives and keep our focus straight forward.
Thankfully, holy week is nearing, then so are days of ignoring all things related to school. Letting focus be directed on being as lazy as possible. Still, it is head scratching the amount of days some students are getting. Some happy kids get to start their holy week earlier than others.
The days to walk away from competing with ourselves and just enjoy life is nearing and we cannot wait.
Battles will surely be waiting after our mini-holiday. These small victories, though, we just have to take it and move on.
Dealing with days that sap the life out of you, these small victories can only be good for our health.
Small wins here and there give us the motivation we need to catch the bigger fish. They are rejuvenating and we cannot take them for granted.**
