Keep the desire to win and be the number one in your heart

The wonderful Asian Games has just come to an end. Even if I don’t pay much attention to the games, I can still learn about the performance of the Chinese team from various channels.

Liu Xiang broke the world record and won the championship, Sun Yang won the most medals, Xu Jiayu won the most five gold medals, the women's volleyball team won the championship...

Most of the focus of this series of reports is When it comes to winners, just like the saying we often hear, no one will remember the second name.

Among the few games I have watched, the one that left a deep impression on me was the men’s ring final.

The Chinese team still won the championship in this game, but what makes me remember this game is a North Korean player who did not even win a medal.

In gymnastics competitions, the only movement I could understand was whether the athletes stood firm when they landed, so at that time I could only rely on the commentators' explanations to judge the quality of the athletes' movements.

When the North Korean player came on the court, I learned from the commentary that this North Korean player was also a strong contender for the gold medal.

His performance on the court seems to be very good. If there are no accidents, he really has a chance to win a medal, or even a gold medal.

But at the moment of landing, that was the last step, the North Korean athlete failed to stand firm, and regrettably lost the chance to win a medal.

The moment he landed, the camera captured the expression on his face, and I could see infinite annoyance.

Perhaps he had been preparing for this competition for a long time. All his preparations were just to win a medal, but he failed in his last step.

His next chance may have to wait another four years, but it may never happen again.

In fact, there are countless such examples on the sports field, but we are used to paying attention to the small group of people who are successful.

Just like in a swimming competition, the photographer will rush in front of the winner at the first time and record his every move and every expression. However, it seems that the performance of other players is not at all important. None of it matters.

This is probably the so-called social law - the winner is the king and the loser is the loser.

Those who win win everything, while those who lose continue to remain silent and wait for opportunities where no one can see them. Maybe they will have the opportunity if they wait, or they may not be able to wait in their lifetime.

The second most watched player among Chinese people is probably Lee Chong Wei, but I am reluctant to describe him as a loser, because in my heart, he is as great as Lin Dan.

When I watched Lin Dan fight in the past, I always went to see Lin Dan, just to see Lin Dan’s domineering attitude on the court. Seeing Super Dan win the game, I was more excited sitting in front of the TV than the people watching on the field.

But now when I think back to the Lin Dan-Li battle at the 2008 Olympics, what I think of is no longer Lin Dan running around the field, but Lee Chong Wei squatting on the ground.

I can’t even think of a word to use to describe Li Zongwei’s mood at that time.

I now feel that although Lee Chong Wei is the runner-up, he is also very worthy of our admiration, because only two equally great athletes can dedicate one great game after another for us.

When we jump out of the thought of always striving for first place, we will see clearly that there is always only one first place, and just putting in effort is not enough to make us the first, because there is another Planting something is called talent.

While we admire the successful, we also gradually learn to understand the losers. Because we ourselves have experienced many failures, gradually we have a more rational understanding of failure.

We also know that it is too difficult to win and too tiring to win all the time.

To this end, we should first learn to look down on winning and losing, and make ourselves the object of competition.

We should maintain a desire to win and try our best to fight. As long as we can surpass our past selves in the end, we can confidently be the number one in our hearts!