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The dark side of winning: What everyone forgets

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The sad fact about life is that no on cares about your story until you win. You see most systems work in such a way that rewards only the winner. It is how life is cast and nothing is changing soon. At the recent passing out parade for new military recruits, the president directed a lot of good words to the recently deceased general Ogolla in summoning the new recruits to live up to be the very best in their trade.

He mourned his death and recounted the loss his departure caused the military. With him in the ill-fated flight were several other distinguished soldiers that anchored the general, but they get minimal or no mention at all because they were others. The title others is a generic terms used to clump together everything else that range from the second best to the extreme mediocre.

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