We can lose some battles, but We CANNOT lose the war.

Big thinkers play to win, not to lose. We typically aim for the biggest goals and dreams, never settling for anything less than number one. We set the pace of the competition. We set the benchmark for standards. We are the forefront of aspirations and dreams.

However, playing to win does not guarantee you will take them all. There is still hard work, grit, determination, preparedness and sometimes even luck which are major players in the outcome of any action. This typically means that sometimes, results just reel out of our control and that's bad. For control is the essence of guiding your own path to victory.

We may trip, we may fall, we may tumble downhill and we just may knock our head hard against the wall. We may hear nothing but doubts and discouragement. We see nothing but lives fueled by fear, fear of "bo liu", fear of losing a job, fear of… We may know nothing but a long line of failures.

But despair not. Where there is a will, there is a way. Time has proven that there is yet to be something that we cannot do. We've gone to the moon, we've flown like birds, we've explored underground caves, we've made every unimaginable thing a century ago possible today. We are a people of will and determination.

Days will be rainy, roads will be bumpy. But rest assured that at the end of the rainbow, there is ALWAYS a pot of gold waiting to be claimed by she who goes the distance.

We can afford to lose some battles, wear some scars and learn some lessons. There is absolutely nothing wrong in failure or mistakes. What is crucial is that we learn from them and never ever repeat them (Hence the significance of HISTORY, but that's another post altogether). Then, stand up again and fight tomorrow's battles we must.

For what is at stake are not mere battle victories. What is at stake is the war. There is only one war we fight, and failure in this war is not an option. So cry, think, dust off your knees and elbows and stand up and fight.