Monday, February 7, 2011

The Warrior of The Light knows how to lose.

The Warrior of The Light knows how to lose.

He does not treat defeat as if it were a matter of indifference to him, saying things like
Oh, it doesn’t matter
or
To be honest, I didn’t really want it that much.
He accepts defeat as defeat and does not try to make a victory out of it.

Painful wounds, the indifference of friends, the loneliness of losing-all leave a bitter taste. But at these times, he says to himself:
I fought for something and did not succeed. I lost the first battle.
These words give him renewed strength. He knows that no one wins all the time and he knows how to distinguish his successes from his failures.


From the The Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coehlo.

Geoff - "The Road to Prague 2009 started here" - Holiday Inn Atrium / Singapore - Sun 10 Aug 2008

Geoff - 200m Heat 2 - AusDBF Nationals / Sydney 2007 - (Apr 2007)

Little Wonders 
Rob Thomas


Let it go
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don't you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in
Let your clarity define you 
In the end
We will only just remember how it feels


Been doing a lot of "letting go" lately.

Keep Moving Forward (Little Wonders Video by Rob Thomas)

1 comment:

  1. What a funny coincidence. That gym is very familiar to me - when I worked in Asia, our corporate hotel was the Holiday Inn Atrium. I must have been in the gym (overlooking the pool) 100 times - and there was usually no one there but me!

    What were you doing in Singapore?

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