Wise men say the greatest lesson you can get is from experience. Make mistakes, fail and we shall flourish! The perks of being young, being a teenager, is that people easily tolerate our mistakes. We, teenagers, are desperately searching for our identity, what we good at, what our interests are. The best way to get the answer to all of these is by trying as well as making the most of every chances. We all have things that we regret not doing. I encountered a very intriguing line that stated "do something worth writing or write something worth reading"
Everybody had ever done something superb or stupid in their life. Regardless of their outcome, there's always something we can pick up from them. I was a point guard for my school's basketball team. My paramount experience was playing for my school in the province tournament. I remembered how thrilling was the final game. We were playing against Wahidin High School. It was the third quarter, we were losing behind 6 or 8 points. Every attack really counts and decides our fate. I recalled the coach was gesturing me to play the big man. We played the offense well, however there was this one player of the opposite team who was so complete. No one in our team can take him one-on-one. In the end of 3rd quarter, we were left 10 points behind.
We thought that that would be it for us. We proceed playing the last quarter, hoping for them to not beat us with many score difference. It was a miracle, in the second minute, that "complete" player pulled his muscle and was incapable to continue playing. We found our chance and played beautifully. It was indisputable that we came back in the last minute. Ultimately, we went home with glory. We won with several points difference. I was so overwhelmed with joy and pride. Every game there is a winning team and a losing team. Losing in final is really heartbreaking. It is like being the loser of the winner.
A month later, Wahidin avenged us, they beat us in the semi final of another tournament. I posit that it was because we were condescending and too proud of ourselves. We didn't take them serious. We were like Icarus falling into the ocean as he flew too close to the sun.
The precious lessons here are that first, we have to stay humble. There's an indonesian proverb stated that we should learn from the grain. The more we possess inside us, the more we should bow/stoop. When we get overconfident, it is likely something bad will turn towards us. The other is don't give up so easily. We may have lost today, but tomorrow we can be the champion and stay on the top! Limits are made to be break. Dreams are made to be achieved. There's nothing that we can't fulfill.
We are all born unique and have our own strength as well as weakness.
In the end, everything will be okay; if it's not okay, then it's not the end ;)
Carpe diem!
---Gio
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