Winners lose, winners make mistakes and winners fail. Success in sport is often measured by winning or losing. Keeping score is important, it makes us try harder. That’s what truly measures ones success. Throughout the world people play sport, people get up to go to work and people love. The hardest lessons are the ones that make us think twice. These past few weeks we have all felt despair of some kind. Whether it was the Malaysian flight that was shot down, taking with it beautiful innocent people, whether it was the war in Israel, whether it was the contestants of X-factor that didn’t get through and or the riders who didn’t win their respective championships. Losing something or someone one provides life lessons that will help us. I know the enormity of the differing scales but the complexity of how they make us feel can be the same. Feeling lost, feeling like a loser, feeling failure and questioning ‘what if’ can’t escape someone who wants to change what has just passed. To Rin Norris and Anthony Maslin your statement has changed lives, changed minds and opened hearts – “No hate in this world is as strong as the love we have for each other. This is a revelation that gives us some comfort”. This comment will echo and eternity. To the X factor contestants that didn’t make it through tonight, you will only lose if you don’t take the positives from your experience. You have all inspired the millions of silent dreamers in Australian by having the coverage to share your dreams with society. Personally I thank you. To the riders who won or lost this weekend don’t despair, tomorrow provides another opportunity to be better than today. If you’re willing to have an open mind and are willing to try than tomorrow can amazingly be better than today. To the Penrite Honda Junior Team well done for trying. Taj, don’t cry, you are only human and you were sick, you have a bright future. You have won so many times before and will win again. Corey you are the 5th best in Victoria. There are more than 4 million people living in Victoria and you are the 5th best racer in your class, if you keep trying you will surprise yourself. Wilson Medcalfe you won the state championship, rode hurt and unfortunately are now sidelined – I will never discourage you from trying to be better. To all of the other riders, remember the following – Getting to the start line is the hardest part, once it drops you are accepting the challenge and with each race you will get better so long as you keep trying. The homeless have forgotten to fight, kids who shy from school sports fear losing and people who don’t challenge themselves die a little more each day. If I can ask parents and friends to do one thing tonight or tomorrow morning – tell your children, your brother, your sister, your work colleagues that you are proud of them for trying, for caring and that you believe that they can improve. Also make sure that you just don’t tell them, but you help them. I have made massive mistakes and I will pay for them for a long time. I have tried, I have trusted and I have had to learn some enormous lessons and as dark as it gets sometimes I can personally say that from failure comes success, from losses come triumph and from falling comes getting up – don’t be afraid to ask for help and admit you need it – whether it’s in sport, in relationships, in life and in business. Rin Norris and Anthony Maslin people all over the world have read the love and hope in your statement, I hope the world has learnt from such unnecessary devastation. I hope it awakes the realisation that we do not need death to appreciate life. I wrote this because I have read all of the messages regarding peoples wins today and I wanted to reminded people that losing isn’t bad, failing isn’t bad and falling isn’t bad so long as we get back up and learn and try to be better.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 12:13:25 +0000
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