It hurts sometimes when i participate in a contest and do not win after a great effort.
I am talking about me personally. Almost every two or three days, i participate through freelancing website in contests which meet my skills and experience.
I go through a contest, read it carefully then begin working on it. Sometimes, i stay up all the night to offer and represent the best of my skill to the contest holder.
There after submitting, you can see the work submitted by other participants. After a few days, i am being surprized that a winner is some one who did not offer the best as mine. Here i begin to be sad and hurt deeply. I look at my kids and say in my heart, my son and my daughter, i am so sorry i couod not win, i do not know why. I feel this time being hurt so much.
Would you please share and tell me why this happens to me??!! Why i do not win although i did the best??!!
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Don’t feel sad if you know you are doing your best. You should be writing for the pleasure it gives you, not to win contests!
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I empathize with this so much! It is disappointing to read the winning entry in any contest and feel deep down that your work truly was better. Ultimately, everyone is doing their best even if it does not look that way to us. All we can attempt to see the light in the winning entry and pick up the pen and try, try again.
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Your words are very true and reflect exactly the true. I feel very very hurt when i am not chosen as a winner, because i do my best and submit after a long effort
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Don’t take any of it personally, sometimes the winner is not the best but popular with the judges.
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You are absolutely right
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But the problem is that i am very sensitive because i do my besr and might stay up for one night to do the work and then not winning
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