The Will To Win And To Be A Winner

Confucius said “ the will to win, the desire to succeed and the urge to reach your full potential are the keys to unlock the door to personal excellence”.

When I was a little girl, we wanted to own our books, not ones from the public library. You wanted to own fresh and new copies of the current books. Looking back this was a simple request to yearn for.

Now days there are Ipods, CD’S, big boom boxes, phones that have cameras on them for instant photos,

designer clothes that cost a lot of money and bought in expensive department stores, cellular phones and anything you can wish for.

Kids have their own cars where they can drive to school without waiting for the school bus, computers to do homework with, printers to print off their homework, their writings and print off pictures they have on their computer.

The smart rich kids can write a paper for school and not to have to go to the public library and race to the library to get special reference books which you could not take home, you had to gather your information and if you had your own typewriter, you could complete your assignment on them. If not, you had to handwrite them in clear handwriting to submit them for the assignment.

You had the will to win, but it was more difficult to accomplish your goals. We had small adding machines with a roll of white paper to add our math assignments.

Mom used to tell me about the old days when she was young and poor. I could not believe her having such hard times, but they survived, because they had the will to win.

A friend of mine has a young son in middle school. He and others take up football, because on their college resume, it looks good to have had a sport like football. The fuller the resume, getting scholarships is almost a necessity.

I remember when I wanted to get into an accelerated junior high, you had to have done some good things in elementary school to even get a chance of being chosen 6 from each elementary school to get into this school. The school was dumpy, of course no AC then, no gyms for gym, which was Ok for me.

Then they decided even smart kids needed some gym and we had to walk once a week about 6 blocks to another school where they let us get some physical activity. In rain or snow, we walked and we all hated it, but that was the rule.

The kids now days have high class indoor floors to practice their activities on and some have pools in there to swim and learn to swim.

We had to walk home 6 blocks to eat lunch and then back to school. No school bus to take us to and back home.

Oh these were the olden days and we survived and prospered, because we had the will to win and to be a winner.