It’s not the winning; it’s the taking part [schooldays.ie]
- Published: 31 May 2011
If I had a euro for the number of times this phrase was mentioned to me as I grew up, I would be a very rich woman by now!
As a child, it took me a while to figure out what this actually meant – it’s not the winning? But, I thought it was. I thought that was why we were racing down lanes in potato sacks and balancing hard-boiled eggs on spoons, to see who could be the first to cross the finish line?
I think it was when I wasn’t the first to cross the finish line (or the second or the third), that I finally understood what this meant. Ahh, it was just about having fun, the crossing the line first bit didn’t really matter at all (I was still a little sceptical though).
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