Nine of Diamonds

I was a huge fan of Ginebra San Miguel way back in the 90's, I am still now but not as hard core fan as before. One thing that makes me look up to them aside from my idol, Noli Locsin, is the way they play basketball. They all personified the words "NO GUTS, NO GLORY" that define their team. It gives a "never say die attitude towards the game. It won't be over until it's over, as long as the clock is ticking, and they can lift even just a single finger, they will fight their way through. That's why they are crowd favorite.

The same is true with men. Nobody can achieve anything if no one is willing to do the unthinkable and face the worst. No guts, no glory. It takes a lot of courage to be the man. Easier said than done. Imagine, nobody wants to lose but not everybody is winning. Simply because not everybody face challenges head-on. Most of them gave up their dream because of being scared to lose. They already lost before they even start. Just keep this in mind, it is hard to be trong, but it is harder to be weak. Glory comes to whom is courageous to do so.

The Nine of Flowers

A winner is not born, they are made. But each and everyone who survived the delivery in the world was indeed a survivor, a person who triumph just to be challenged again in the next minute, hour, days, months, and years of their existence. Anyways, we can say that the proof that we are still living is when we still pains and hardships. We define ourselves by small victories that we make. The truth is, we define ourselves by learning and implementing what we lessons we have learn. That means, it includes failures. The similarity between normal people and achievers is that both of them experience defeats and failures, the difference is that the achievers learns, stands up, and reach for their goals, while others quit. Failure is something to be used as a too, an instrument in to which we strengthen ourselves. Getting up after is each fall is what separates the winner and the loser. Like what Homer said "Trying is the first step towards failure." It is also a huge leap towards winning. The lesson of the Nine of Flowers: Success is failure turned inside out.