I just got to trust in myself

I used to swim back in high school. I was very good in breaststroke. In my third year I was the number one breaststroker and I used to represent my school in that stroke in all competitions.

This once event that I lost has never left my mind until now. It sometimes haunts me when I’m sleeping. I lost at the most important event that everyone looked up to me. To make it worse the second best stoker in our school who had rarely beat me before had a better time than me and won the event.

This is what happened. It was the final event to qualifier to national wide swimming spot. I knew their was only one opponent in the race who was faster than me. I had spent the previous weeks coming up with strategy of winning against him. And my strategy was one that has taught me one serious life lesson. Always trust in yourself and never feel like others are better than you.

I thought that the only thing I had to do was to swim in the same race as him. Then make sure that through the entire race I do not let him get ahead of me and then at the very last point in the race give out all my best. My plan worked well. I even got me swapped to change in the race he was in. I maintained position with him and at the vey last stage released all the last energy I had and went ahead and defeated him.

My joy was shorted lived. Yes I had beat him but I realized I could have done even better. The other race I swapped from the others performed better than us I kept wondering why I had spent so much time trying to come up a strategy to beat this single person ignoring the fact that there were so many other participants in the event.

I am writing about this experience now since I feel like a need a little motivation in my current point in my career and I am giving it to myself. I hope to read this article a few years from now and it puts a smile on my face. That is all I would want for me😊. Just a sincere smile:-)