Last week I listened to the clipping of a scholar about the role of sports, in teaching a valuable quality, Sports Teaches How To Lose. That point was so impressive that it encouraged me to write something about it.
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Importance
The importance of sports in our lives is obvious. It teaches discipline, self-management and patience. It improves health and enhances our immunity. Another very positive impact is that it teaches us how to lose. This quality is very important, not only for individuals but for the whole community and nation. In sport only one team wins. It is impossible in sports, to always win. A player or a team, how perfect they may be, cannot win all the time. Between two teams, one is going to win and othe is going to lose. So, one usually has to lose at some time. In this way we have to accept our defeat. We can learn how to control our emotions, accept the win of our competition, and we can learn to congratulate the winner after our defeat. These all qualities mean a lot.
Accept Defeat
In our lives, we see that people don’t accept defeat. In our home, parents usually ask their children to keep themselves in the 1st position. This kind of training, makes our children of this mind or even set in their lives. It is also true that we have to train our children to work hard and perform well and try to keep them in high positions, but the compulsion of becoming 1st will not be a compulsion. Any other person also can be a hard-worker or can have any quality at a high level. So, we must accept this basic reality and try our best to accept our lower position open-heartedly. It may give us mental relaxation and peace of mind.
It is observed in our society that acceptance of failure is not only unacceptable but also creates negative reactions. We feel jealousy, which makes us very unhappy. This feeling can cause us to do leg-pulling or even to harm our competition. This type of atmosphere is very harmful for the nation, for the development of the society and country. It prohibits healthy competition which is the key to success.
Positive Competition
In politics, it is required more. In elections, we see that all political parties try their best to win the election. Unfortunately, these parties use fair or unfair means to push back all others, by using propaganda in acceptable or unacceptable ways. In this way, there is a very strange or awful situation. Parties try their best to defame other leaders using usually unrealistic figures about them. After the formation of any government, all other parties try to fail the government by using all possible efforts, fair or unfair. This thing hinders the progress of the country and defames it in the world. If there is a training and prevalence and acceptance to lose something. The situation must be far better. It is also necessary to have a positive competition, with hard work, for the improvement of our condition, it will create a healthy environment. It is the key to success and progress for any nation or country.
Having a balanced personality
The experience of loosening or defeat is important for a complete personality. Those who don’t lose in their lives, have a problematic issue which can create big psychological problems. A balanced personality must accept every situation in life, including loss.
The experience of loss is not desirable but must be acceptable. Loss must encourage us to improve our condition and our strategy to gain the desirable results. If loss becomes a part of our life, it will produce negative effects.
Collaboration
You carry on playing and you are losing in fact you are given another chance to win. Collaboration is the main part of it. You can’t work alone even champions also have one or many coaches and you need a team too.
