Prime Minister Lee and table Tennis Player Li

What does that Prime Minister Lee know about losing and why does he know about being happy or not being sad? He said do not be sad to Lee Jia Wei. To someone who has just lost her dreams , years of efforts had just vanished in one moment. To her, it was adding insult to injury as she lost two games in a row. For an athlete, i guess in order to excel, you must do it more for yourself than for any other purposes. Because it is only this love for oneself. this desire to be the best that drives one on relentlessly. She had wanted to be the first , to be the best so she can proudly say to the world that she has won. And the rest of Singapore will say yes she had won it for us. Different people have different causes to be sad, that was one particular moment that was most saddenly for Li. It is inevitable. Unless she had planned to lose. Unless she does not wish to be at that spot, to be the focus of at least Singapore, if not the world. Yes she can always try again, she can always train harder. So can the rest, so can the world champion. One chance gone is one chance gone. Lets not talk about whether she can improve or she will succeed in her next attempt. What hurts most is this loss, this moment that defined a moment in her life that she did not measure up, to another whom she felt perfectly capable of overcoming. Some people might just try and never get the chance. They may be good, but they just constantly run into people who are better. Some might just simply be lousy. Either, losing in both situations gives enough cause to shed those tears. So i shall say, just cry and have nightmares becoz I know you tried very hard, I know she wanted it so badly that she had bled and sweated. And at the end, when the tears dried and nightmares stopped , she will become a stronger person, ready for another four years of living out her dreams. she has undergone unimaginable condition and training, of enduring pain normal people will not bear to even think about. And all this with not a single medal to show for. Yes her spirit is indomitable, she is now a goddess in our eyes. But to her , she trained and she put in effort not for our worship, but for that place in history, History of the world. Of her own world, where table tennis reigns. Not in a nation where we just wish to produce Olympic medallist s that we may tel l the world, our microscopic nation can produce people who are best in the world. Not in a nation where we educate our youth to become entreprenuers and doctors and scientists so that we may eearn enough money to import foreign talents to win the medals for us. So please cry. And May God bless you. May you truly be the one worthy of the Ultimate medallion.