You are given the opportunity
to excel in the sport
of your choice.
You will–as a result of this–earn fame and fortune, but it comes with a catch. You will never be the best. Every time you make it to the championship you will lose. People will still regard you as a great competitor and think of you as a legend in the field–but you will always take second place. You will never win when it counts.
Do you think you could handle this? Or would it gnaw at you and make you think of yourself as a loser? Do you have to have that victory to truly feel like a success?
You realize this scenario you’re describing is ‘Rocky I’ right? I mean, if there was no Rocky II, III, et al. Before Rocky was ‘Rocky’ there was ‘Rocky I’ and in that movie the core of it was the he WAS destined to be no better than second best. In fact, that’s the whole emotional climax of the movie; in the scene before the fight when he comes to terms with the fact that -as good as he is- he’s never going to beat the champion Apollo Creed in this fight: “Who am I kiddin’? I ain’t even in the guy’s… Read more »