Once more

Damn it! Why does it always happen at a most unsuitable moment?! No, please, no, not now… Her computer has just crashed, and the whole text that she was typing online for a translating contest vanished forever. It was unfair and depressing. And it happened at 11 pm while deadline for work submissions was midnight. “Typically, - she thought. – But for God’s sake, why are you so obsessed with this contest? Nobody forces you to participate in it. You have your job, your duties, your house to live, everything is fine and settled”. First, the size of the story she chose for translating was too big (the rules of the contest say the translation should be less than 10 000 symbols). She found another story even though she already translated 3 pages from the first one. Then, she couldn’t convert the scan version of the English text to a word-document. She       typed the whole story in the word-document. And now this… Somewhere deep inside, there was a momentary temptation to quit, to give up.

She suddenly remembered how their dance coach once showed them a complicated dance element that required physical strength and flexibility. He said that those who would be able to show this element during the next practicing in two days will present it in a performance they were preparing for a dance competition. She practiced it for the whole Sunday: did her homework for the university and practiced the dance element for half an hour, read the book for two hours and practiced the element for another half an hour, etc. Again and again. Every time she ended up falling on her back, every time she couldn’t hold her legs at the right angle. Her right shoulder and her right hip became blue of bruises. She clenched her teeth and lifted her legs back into the air. Again and again. Next day, during the dance practicing there was only two people in her team except their coach who could do a “freeze” (breakdance element when you keep your body with your arms and lift your legs perpendicularly to the floor). She was one of them.

Just once more. Because she is too stubborn to give up. So she just took a deep breath and started typing her story from the very beginning. Even when you feel that the whole your strength and power is gone, and you literally CAN’T do it anymore, when you are about to give up, there is always this ONCE MORE that leads you to your success. The difference between winners and losers is simple: losers tried for 100 times, winners did the 101^st one.