The Guy Who Is Used To Being A Winner
I knew it was too good to be true — as I kept asking myself ‘what’s the catch?’
“I was so used to being a winner since I was a kid I have always wanted to maximize everything that I do — I want to be the best in everything. When it comes to sports it wasn’t an exception, I put my best efforts into it, and my hard work is finally paid off when I won 3rd place in the nationwide Karate competition.
After graduating from high school, it wasn’t hard for me to choose what major that I want to study, with this huge background of sports, I went into one of the best universities in my country and enrolling in Sport major. But to be honest, it wasn’t my choice, my coach picked that for me, just like a judge convicted a defendant for the rest of his life — it seems that my destiny had chosen by him. Although that I didn’t really like it, I went with the flow.
Along the way, no matter how good I am at it, I had just realized that college wasn’t just for me, and the thought of it was getting stronger more than ever when I fell in love with a girl. It was the 2nd semester of my college and I had a relationship with her, for the first time in my life I was in love. At the first time, all I want was just someone to share my thoughts, but I found someone who has more than that instead. She was my inspiration, and I’d like to be someone that she can be proud of. She was a hard worker, she even paid the college’s intuition fees by herself. One night, I still remember it was 10 pm, I had a phone call with a friend, he offered me a business proposition, I was really excited about it, my father is a salesman — and the business genes runs strongly in my family blood — so it doesn’t take me long to accept his proposition, that’s where I decided to quit college and made my first clothing company — named December In Town.
She was the first person that I told about my plan for the future — don’t blame me, because everything that I wrote for my future has her name involved. She supported me about it, in fact, she was excited, she even said to me ‘Whenever your brand is coming out, I promise I will be the first one that wears it’. Having someone that I loved supported me, I rolled the dice then decided to quit college.
Things seem to be perfect, and everything goes according to the plans. I knew it was too good to be true — as I kept asking myself ‘what’s the catch?’. Then all of sudden, the most unexpected twist in my life. It was a late-night, I had received a phone call from her, I thought it was just another bedtime story talks, but it turns out to be something bitter. She said that she couldn’t continue this relationship and she chose to marry someone instead of me — just like that, the purpose of my life was gone. I was so depressed about it, it seems that I had no other reasons to stay alive in this silly world — it was the lowest point of my life — I just couldn’t be focused on everything that I do, and everything started to falling apart, it took a huge toll in my life — also for my company. I felt like that I had given her everything that I could just to be with her — I even quit college to pursue something that she can be proud of.
One day, I was looking at my family pictures, realizing that they had been sacrificed a lot for me, to be able to support me in any way they could — I felt that I had let them down. It was a very sad moment but also a wake-up call for me, within the shortest yet strangest time in my life, I had a purpose again, I want to make them happy and I want to make them proud of me — my family.
I have learned my lesson, I had just realized that the wheel of life keeps spinning, and we can’t always be a winner, there will be a time where we have to taste the bitterness of life — losing — although that loss seems to be a negative word no matter how you looked at it, for me, it was an evaluation to make ourselves better. It doesn’t matter when you’re losing along the way, because what matters the most is how you able to finish the journey.”
