{"id":684,"date":"2012-07-30T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-07-30T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:07:16","slug":"the-origins-of-losing-a-lesson-in-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Losing: A Lesson in Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She always looks that happy because she’s ALWAYS WINNING<\/p><\/div>\n

I hate losing. Like really, really hate it. If you\u2019ve played me in any sort of game and beat me, you will know, I suck at losing. I\u2019m an ass. I get grumpy. I generally am not pleasant to be around. Even if I\u2019m losing, I\u2019ll get super stressed out and it\u2019s probably rather annoying.<\/p>\n

Because of this, I generally try to only do things that I\u2019m good at. (Luckily, I think that\u2019s a lot of things<\/a>)<\/p>\n

As a freshman in high school, my uber Christian ex-boyfriend wrote me love letter-esque list of the things he loved about me. On said sappy list, he wrote something to the extent of \u201cI love how we can\u2019t play games together because you\u2019re too competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to think I\u2019ve gotten better since then, but it\u2019s hard to tell.<\/p>\n

At work, I\u2019ve started playing water pong with my coworker, roommate and friend Emily. When I say water pong, I do not mean Beirut<\/a>. I mean one cup on each end, paddles, hoops, scored to 21, etc. You try to hit the ping pong ball into the cup. You get a point for each time you hit the cup (minding a nice arch) and one point if you make a \u201choop\u201d in the cup. Why do you not earn more points for making a hoop? Because when drinking, the person scored on must stop and finish a whole beer. Therefore, the more hoops you get, the drunker your competitor becomes. We do not drink at work while playing, but we score the same.<\/p>\n

Now, I only played pong in college once. One time, I learned how to play this game, and got my ass kicked. One time.<\/p>\n

But why didn\u2019t I play this game? I play almost every drinking game known to man!<\/p>\n

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Well this is just embarrassing<\/p><\/div>\n

So when asked if I wanted to start it up at work, to be honest, I said yes, initially thinking we would be playing Beirut. And I\u2019m a huge stickler for people using the correct names to refer to the correct game, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n

So why not? Let\u2019s give this a shot. I\u2019m going to attempt to get better at this game.<\/p>\n

And I suck!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m terrible. Since we\u2019ve started, I\u2019ve only won four games. Emily has won nine. And she wins, consistently, week after week, day after day.<\/p>\n

And I hate it!<\/p>\n

Sometimes I pout. Sometimes I get angry. Sometimes it\u2019s probably rather unpleasant for Emily to play with me. Sometimes I tell her I\u2019m going to quit.<\/p>\n

But I can\u2019t. I am trying to teach myself the patience of losing<\/a>. I\u2019d like to not be considered a \u201cpoor sport.\u201d So I call it a lesson in humility because it\u2019s damn right embarrassing how much and how often I lose. But that\u2019s okay. Or I\u2019m hoping it will be\u2026 or I\u2019m hoping I will be.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s call this a personal challenge. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

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P.S. I also finished my softball season and we didn’t win a single game. It’s been a season of losing for me. If you read last week’s post<\/a>, you’ll know I’m hoping more of you will comment. So, comment if you’d like on a time you kicked my ass in something.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate losing. Like really, really hate it. If you\u2019ve played me in any sort of game and beat me, you will know, I suck at losing. I\u2019m an ass. I get grumpy. I generally am not pleasant to be around. Even if I\u2019m losing, I\u2019ll get super stressed out and it\u2019s probably rather annoying. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[277,331,345,567,610,618,695],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kimwetter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/pong-losses-e1343689514277.jpg?fit=968%2C1296&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimwetter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}