Winning Isn't Everything

The world we currently lived in has become more competitive than any period. The society mainly followed the jungle law and there are two words saying that what winning is. The first one "Winning isn't everything" is for those students or grown-ups who compete with each other in order to have fun and kill time whereas the other one "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." is for professional athletes who fight for honor and get paid with wages. The essay then looks at why both of the words make sense.

"Winning isn't everything" fit in the environment that everyone built their own social network. The present society takes popular people as the sign of easy to find someone accompany. No one wants to live a solitary life. So as to accomplish the goal of being popular as well as to prevent a one-off friendship and short-term relationship, the ability of good socializing is required. Sports competition can be one of the methods to build such wide social network. In the competition, there are two or more sides of the people been like rivals. However, in daily life, they probably are new friends who just met, girl who been had crush on by a boy or superior and inferior. These people participate in the competition not to win but to set up a trust, set up a strong tie among each other. So that's why winning isn't everything in such circumstance.

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." fit in whom in the surroundings that take winning as the ultimate goal. Such as the Olympic Games, athletes represent their country and prove to the world that their nations are the best. After all, what winning could bring them is respect from the world and fame for their country. As the saying goes, I don't know how you measure greatness, but everything else pales into insignificant for me when compared to my role as an athlete. The aches and pains that a gold-medal athlete has been through is not what ordinary man could picture. Training from day to day, just for one single purpose－to win. When all hope is lost, when ache watches over them, hope can always be found and coaches will light their way. They are the athlete, with wisdom and strength, fight for dignity and honor, take winning as the only goal. That's what the word "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." would best fit.

Let's change the situation into a totally different perspective. Let's say that people who want to make friends take the second one as principle and athletes take first one as motto, what would happen? It would be chaos. People were making enemies instead of friends and sports match won't ever have an ending. So as to conclude, both of the words would make sense due to the different circumstance.