Being competitive is egoistic. It is sick.

You are asking, ”Why is it so hard to accept being a Failure?” It hurts the ego; otherwise there is no problem.

Vineeto, the very idea of being competitive is egoistic. It is sick.

There is nothing wrong in being a failure. Just be a total failure!

Do everything that you can do and if failure comes out of it, accept it with dignity.

Somebody has to fail, somebody has to win.

You should not be so much attached to your own ego that you always have to win.

Once in a while, just for a change, failing is not bad. As much can be learned by failure as can be learned by victory.

You can learn egolessness, you can learn humbleness, you can learn accepting whatever life brings to you.

And all these things will give
you a maturity.

Then who is bothered who is the winner and who is the failure?
People are unnecessarily concerned that the whole world is watching.

Nobody has time.
Everybody is interested in his own competition.

In fact, if you are a failure, you may have the sympathy of everybody. But if you are a winner, you won’t get anybody’s sympathy.

But one should take life almost like a playground.

One should learn gamesmanship.

One should know that somebody has to be the winner and somebody has to be the loser.

And if you are a humble man, you would like yourself to be a failure rather than deprive somebody else of victory.

Perhaps you have never thought about the possibility of enjoying
failure because you have given
the chance to somebody else of enjoying the victory.

His victory depends on you. You could have deprived him of victory.

But all that is needed is a deep awareness to think and to see that these are the only two possibilities.

Fight with your total energy and intensity, but it is not necessary that you should be the winner.

And when the other wins, rejoice in his victory too.

It was a beautiful game.

Don’t feel defeated.
Your failure is a defeat only if you have not put your whole energy into it.

OshO ❤
CHAPTER 30. BE ADAM AND EVE
Sat Chit Anand