So you obviously haven't forgotten the competition where you were awarded the 2nd prize and the judges consoled you by announcing that it was just by a few points! You would also still remember the time when you came second in that bet...but then there were only two people competing ;) Remember that colony aunty ji who always compared you with her Bablu who always came first in well..uh. everything! You surely recall the pain in your chest when the love of your life stood posing with the winner and not you, as again as usual you were second :) So there you were ready to take on every Bablu and every Auntyji who would ever mess with you a.k.a beat you to first place!
You now of course are in first place and didn't let anyone beat you or get ahead but someone did beat you. All the auntyji's and Bablu's were always ahead of you...no not actually but in the space you gave them in your heart and mind. They made you forget how to throw your head back and laugh like there was no tomorrow,they made you forget your individual journey, your own race track which you could have created and been the sole runner on, they made you run and that too right into the rat race! Sometime's wanting first place becomes more a function of defeating those we dislike than pleasing those we like including ourselves :) Stop, pause you can read this at leisure,that is of course if you choose to take the time. It isn't for nothing that they say - EVERY SECOND COUNTS :) and it always will...only if you want it to...
Sanchita Johri
That very Second place inspires and keeps you always on the RUN..to acheive the Best from the Rest.. ALL->Ways..
ReplyDeleteI wish the inspiration wasn't the second place, i.e. being second to someone else but your own desire to do better in whatever you choose if you can do it any better and that means even if you have always been in first place :) The competition and inspiration should always be from within not with the outside world :)
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