First off, a disclaimer, I stole this HTML script from the one and only handsome, sexy, David Y. Fang. He's got a great page, very pleasing to the eye, too bad he doesn't have more pictures of himself. I have them hidden on this page, so if you look hard enough, you might find it! (Darn, awesome Mark's influence apparently has not yet been completely exorcized from my mental state.

  Defeat, what more can I say about it? With my highly competitive spirit and mood, I have had my good share of it. I have always considered myself a gambling person, but if I have lost many times, and know that I don't like the feeling, that why do I continue to put myself in that position?

  The answer is as simple as most people are. :oP Because it's worth the risk. How often have I ACTUALLY lost compared to the number of times I have WON? With my uncanny sense of good luck, I have won more than I have lost. Well, okay, maybe not that, but I have won MANY more times than the average American.

  Many don't take upon anything in life without guarantees, promises, contracts, or anything that on paper. That's all fine when it comes to property, or anything with high monetary value, which is why there are things like insurance. BUT, not everything is always going to be that way. Things must be given up for something else. Obvious examples are goods and services which are purchased with money. To obtain something, something else needs to be given up.

  Some other aspects are not as obvious, such as opportunity costs. Take, for example, the time that you are reading these words on the screen. You COULD be doing other things, paying your bills, doing some homework, cleaning, eating, YET, you have decided to use this commodity (time) to read my words! I feel honored already. Because I'm such a stickler for efficiency, I do what I have to do first, and then have FUN FUN FUN!!!! (I'm not quite sure if I consider THIS fun though, but it sure isn't work!)

  Winning isn't everything, but it sure is a great feeling. There are many things in which I have not yet grasped the concept of "it's just a game." I don't see the point in playing a game unless to win. What about "playing for fun?" There's no such thing as that, if I was "playing for fun" than that would be PRACTICE. Of course, if I'm playing/practicing a game that I know VERY little about, THEN, I suppose I would play for FUN. Games that I know that I'll never be awesome in, such as TABLE TENNIS (you idiots can keep your pathetic "ping pong".

  What about the gambits that are taken in life. For those that don't know, this is traditionally a chess terminology. Giving up a piece for a better one. Although an extreme example, wouldn't you give up your pawn for the other person's Queen? OF COURSE YOU WOULD! (Unless of course you play chess like a pansy like many of my friends.) So, think about it, even if you weren't in any dire need for ummmmm....... something non-perishable, BUT, they had a buy 1 get 10 free sale, so you can stock up and save, wouldn't you do that? Provided you have the space in the house to store it? Of course you would! (Unless of course you have the economics IQ like some of my wussy friends, mind you, one of them is higher than mine by a long shot!)

  Now, defeat isn't totally bad. I don't think it's good, but rather the absense of winning. I've been "addicted" to winning to the extent that anything less would not be acceptable. But, when I loose (it's rare, but it happens), I rethink everything, and go kick ass all over again!

  Before I leave with one last though. Just wanted to give a little say to Cindy Fang, for the little inspiration of having some rambles of my own. Mind you, I'm not trying to compete with her by making mine longer and frequent. This is just my style.

  My last thought, something that I say fairly often, and it is actually a good reason that explains what and why I do. "In life, there are no guarantees for success, but it is the possiblity of success that makes us do what we do."