Winning

Lately I have been thinking about the word winning a lot. I am not in any kind of competition whatsoever right now but I am just thinking that the main objective of any competition is to win.

In my opinion, the notion that it is not winning that is important but playing fair and to the very best of your ability, are totally incorrect. Usually the coach will tell this kind of crap to the losing team just to console the players while the winning team would be rejoicing at their win to the nth degree.

When I was growing up, I never win any medal be it academically or in sport. I may be in the top 10% in school in Sandakan but I never won anything that deserved a medal. I was the type that had to study to excel. In another word I had to work hard. Unlike some of my classmates who were so smart and did not have to study but can get better marks than me.

Being the shortest one in class meant that I could never shine in the sport arena. The closest I got to represent my primary school in sport was in table tennis. For those of us who were representing the school, we had to practice a lot during class time and as a result we missed a lot of classes. But in the end i could not remember now but we did not get to represent our school at all. Or was I the only one who got kicked out from the team? Haha. Either the competition was scrapped at the eleventh hour or it clashed with our examination time.

When I was studying high school in Down Under, my classmates and I entered Maths competitions. During those times I did win some certificates.

The only medal I won in my entire life was in senior high school for an inaugural Asian Studies Award. For that the school gave me an individual small plaque and my name was inscribed on the school plaque for that award.

In 1 Corinthians 9:24, the Apostle Paul had this to say “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.”

So winning is definitely not everything, it is the only thing.