Winner takes it all??

I always thought nothing succeeded like success. That winning was all that mattered. That losing was all about failure. And the winner took it all- every last bit. But after watching an episode of Homemade yesterday on AXN I guess I'm not so sure anymore. Many times before I've felt very strongly that the deserving don't always get their due. I've known that since I was sixteen years old. But yesterday for the first time I saw the whole thing - this winning and losing game- in an entirely new light. For the first time I wondered how it must to be win and know in your heart of hearts you did not deserve that win. To stand before others and accept an award or prize and know that it belongs to someone else. To others who deserve it more than you do. For those of you who don't care one way or another, for those with a dead or dormant conscience, it's okay pal. After all you won. It says it all. But it doesn't. Because no matter what your award says, no matter what prize you get, no matter what the world says, you know you didn't deserve it. You'll know even if no-one does. How do you live with that? And yourself? On the other hand the so-called loser or failure walks out of the contest, competition knowing that he or she deserved to win more than the person who did. That he or she was far better. Hey! So who's the winner here? The one with the award, trophy, prize, what- have-you or the one who knows with a deep certainty that he or she deserved to win but did not?  That he or she did a damn good job, far better than the person who actually won. The satisfaction of a job well done far outweighs, in my opinion, any prize or award you might get; any win, any success you might have got. So the next time you lose ask yourself: are you really the loser? Because even if you deserved to lose you don't come away empty handed from the experience. You come away with knowledge, with experience. You learn. There are no losers my friend. Only learners. And winners don't take it all. Not every time.