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Accepting a Loss Losing is part of life it is how you deal with a loss that can either desolate you, or amend as an individual. The easy part is losing, accepting a loss is hard. Throughout my life, I have won several competitions, from a basketball tournament to a chess match, and even a spelling bee, yet I have lost twice as many. Every time I go into a competition, I am focused on winning, an feeling victory and admiration, and not even for a second do defeats cross my mind. My father, a well built man with the voice of a lion and a face to match, beat into me the idea that winning is everything, at the age of six. At that age, I absorbed everything that came out of my father’s mouth like a sponge. My father was very competitive, since he grew up without a father figure; he felt the need to prove himself capable of accomplishing anything. He would enter me in a two “on” two basketball tournaments, sponsored by Nike, every summer. I was scared to know what he tell if I loss, since in the past he would taunt me by calling me loser. After losing a chess match, a game he loved to play, he raised his hand in the air, and would have brought it down to smack me if it wasn’t for people around us. My