I,
It was an honour to lose
with you. I know the noise and the rabble after every contest is always the
same. Winning is everything and losing is full of insight and reflection. This
is not all true. How and what you win matters. And how you lose matters even more.
We did not fall down a
flight of stars. We stood on something and for something. In the end, it was
not the path everyone took but beyond that, it is not a temporary or permanent
state. We are not here for a few battles but for the mighty war of values. We
believe in the order and beauty of a seemingly random universe. We believe in
the creator and the moment that births and holds everything together. Losing is
forgetting that. Losing is when we fail to remember that, as the very wise man
said, “…the victory of darkness over light can only be temporary.”