Winning is not Everything

By Sahil Balhara

             Winning! Winning! Winning! Is that all what people think about? I DON’T THINK SO! Well, I had a chess game with my younger brother, and of course it was obvious that I was going to win as I had more knowledge and knew about all the techniques. My brother was great too, but not good enough to beat me. In approximately five minutes, I did checkmate to him. He was envious and wanted another chance. I just left him alone and didn’t care that I won. Winning does make you proud, but is not important because everyone is a winner from their personalities! 
           One reason is that if you keep on winning, soon your friends would become your enemies. This is how. Your friends would get tired of winning and want to make a new friend. If you keep on practicing to win, your friends you would go away since you won't have any time to be with him. They would think that you are not a true friend, which would always spend time with them. Instead of that, you are trying to be athletic just to win, when you could take a break and hang with your them for a while. If your friends play in the same game as you and you win, they would feel bad. Instead let them win sometimes, maybe in a board game that you are really good at. If you do that then you 

could still practice to win other times, and still keep your friends!

          Another reason is that you may be overconfident, and change how you feel about yourself. For example, you might get a little to far and brag to others. Also you might not listen to what the coach says and think about your victory. The coach would probably have some important plan for the next game your team plays and you wouldn’t be able to listen to you. Maybe next time you play, you might not be the all-star of the game. You would just stick about your topic of winning a game, and not talk about something else which your friends want to do. They would probably want to talk about something really important to you, and you wouldn't have the opportunity to talk about it. That would hurt their feelings and make them feel not to talk to you about anything important. 
The last reason is that your coaches might brag to the other team and that makes them frustrated at you. The coach would get a little too hyper and say that their team won in front of the TV. That would embarrass you and all your classmates would make fun of you at school the next day. Your friends might get really mad if you don't win, because they think you are the all-star of the team and expect you to win the game for them.  He might annoy you talking about the victory you made, and would want you to feel to never win again. This would spoil your whole life!

         Winning means a lot to many people who are in sports and want their team to be proud of their victory. Even if that happens wouldn't the other team with probably your best friend, would have jealousy over you? To stop that you could still play your best, but make a little mistakes so your friend wouldn't be too mad at you for being perfect all the time. That would make your friend happy and so will that for your team. So I think that winning is not everything. And even if you do win you could be a little proud of yourself if it was your first time. If you keep on winning you could even get tired of playing it and so would your friends, being with you.