If you’ve ever been told
Winning isn’t everything,
Winner or not,
You’d have probably scowled 😀
So where does winning take you?
To fame? Throw you up to gut screeching joy?
Or gloat and brag and preen?
Perhaps line your purse
Or maybe help you hitch that ride onward?
I know the best thing about it
(Errrm… not winning ie)
Is you get another shot at it.. 🙂
You’re lucky, you know
You get to do it differently.
You get to say things you never would have.
You get to find yourself.
Yes, winning is good.
But if you don’t, maybe
You’ll get that other chance.
And boy! Second Chances matter.
Go on, and take that chance.
Believe. It’s a miracle waiting to happen 🙂
8 April, 2013, online
Sashu’s Update on FB, which read: “Always, always believe in second chances. It could be the best thing you’d ever do – for others as well as for yourself. :)” is the reason for this ramble 🙂
A Quest on Overdrive ... :) 
April 8, 2013 at 12:26 pm
Lovely thoughts which couldn’t have been more aptly timed ,when I myself am analysing ‘not winning’ part of the game called life.
you gave words and hope to my feelings.
I came here from Shail’s blog .
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April 8, 2013 at 12:33 pm
Dear Kirti
Welcome to this space 🙂 And thank you for your warm words. I’ve been in this state many a time, and what I have shared come from all of my experiences too. 🙂 Glad you find hope here. May it sustain, and help in what ever way it can 🙂 God Bless!
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April 8, 2013 at 12:39 pm
I do believe in miracles which might come during very unexpected and strange situations in life! Had a great read here, Usha Madam. Have a good day ahead. God bless. 🙂
Rahul
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April 10, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Rahul, thank you for the resonance 🙂 God Bless you too!
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April 8, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Second chances.. People either welcome them or despise them.
I think it depends upon how people look at it.. The person who is ving the second chance, and who is being given the second chance.. Either of them can feel that they may not deserve it..
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April 10, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Most of everything in life depends on that perspective does it not. And when you perceive positivity, I guess it becomes what one could make into a miracle also 🙂 Thanks for that observation you make to lend gravity to this write, Hrishi 🙂
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April 9, 2013 at 10:34 am
Beautiful poem Usha. Encouraging.
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April 10, 2013 at 9:12 pm
Thank you Indira 🙂
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April 10, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Hi Usha, nowadays I’m not getting notification of your post, don’t know why.
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April 10, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Oh. I wonder why!
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April 9, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Loved this one, l;eaves you with a really good feeling 🙂
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April 10, 2013 at 9:13 pm
Aayushi, glad you found some good feeling with this, as I did, when I read Sashu’s update 🙂 This is but a wan imitation, but I had to share 🙂
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May 17, 2013 at 1:40 pm
Second chances and glances are both worth taking/giving/getting 🙂
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