Sunday, 11 April 2010  The sweet agony of defeat...   The famous
image of "agony of defeat" from Wide World of Sports  To have
loved and lost, is better.. than to never have loved at all. Or
better even, than to have loved and won!  A loss, if truly
meaningful, teaches you a lot more than any victory ever can. A
defeat gives you cause to pause and contemplate, to question, to
reassess what went wrong. How can you rise from it? But most of
all a defeat gives you perspective, a measure to value all your
victories. I have been on the winning side more than a few
times. Winning the game, winning the points, winning the girl.
But in sports like in real life, winning the girl doesn't feel
half as good as losing the girl feels bad...  The thrill of
victory gives an adrenaline rush, sends blood coursing through
the veins, leaves you with a sense of elation. But the agony of
defeat hurts a lot longer. The pangs come for days and weeks and
sometimes months. The heaviness of the heart feels like someone
is kneeling on y