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"Should I Be Happy?? Should I Be Disappointed??"

Today was Sports Day at my school, and I played a rather large part.

I was in the 100m final and the 4x100m relay final. I won the 100m last year, and also got into the District Sports 100m Final. I was the favourite.

But next to me was the school's best 200m, along with an unproven sprinter-both of whom ran faster than me in the heat.

Just before the race, the 200m runner (supposedly the fastest in the year, but he had hardly ever ran 100m) was DQ'd by my teacher for swearing.

This left me and this unproven runner. We ran, and he beat me by 3 tenths of a second.

His time was 11.86-a new year 9 record.

My time was 12.16-my new personal best by 7 tenths of a second!

Should I be happy?? Should I be disappointed??

Next was the relay. We were the favourites by far, as out relay team consisted of the District Sports 100m and 200m runners.

Unfortunately the 200m runners had to drop out (one of them the guy who was DQ'd.) So we used a 400m runner and an 800m runner instead.

I went on the 4th leg. We were doing quite well up until the change-over to me. The person who passed it to me had never done relay, and he told me to go way too early. I had to stop before we were DQ'd.

I got the baton in 3rd place. At first I was resigned to coming 3rd, but then I began to catch them. By the end of the race, I was ahead of both of them. We'd won.

Unfortunately, I think we should have been DQ'd, as I ran over the line when we mucked up the change-over. I feel a little guilty, and it sort of takes away the happiness.

Should I be happy?? Should I be disappointed??


Now you may be wondering-what does this have to with gaming??

Well, I was thinking about how I felt when I completed Metal Gear Solid-my favourite game ever.

I'd been playing it non-stop for a few days, and had finally completed it. I was happy to have finished the game, but also sad that there was no more to come. It wasn't the same when I played it again.

So, should I be happy to have finished the game?? Or should I be disappointed that there was no more to come until MGS2??

Should I be happy?? Should I be disappointed??

Thanks for reading, Ant.

Be happy. You've just fulfilled your quest to complete the game and you have. Plus, you can always go back and complete it again you know! Loads 'o' secrets in MGS.

And the fact that you beat your best record in the running should be happy enough, yet coming first would, admittedly, be better.

So should you be happy or sad? It's up to you Ant.

I was really dissapointed when i completed Conker, close to tears i was. Same with Zelda OOT, but in Zelda i thought they messed up the relationship with saria and Link. It could have been so much more...

2 things: 1)The running standards at your school are a LOT higher than at mine and 2)When I completed Grim Fandango-my favourite game ever-I was practically in tears-I didn't want to leave the world of Manny Calavera and the rest of the cast that Lucasarts had so beautifully put togeather-but I got over it. Be happy you completed the game and be sad about not having to play it any more as well. Anyway, you're meant to complete MGS multiple times to get more of that conversation at the end.

Ah, more people are getting the point of the topic now.

Gooooooood.....

I was dissapointed with nintendo. They think everyones into pokemon. Now they only sell a stange pikachu n64. Lots of people dont like pokemon - including me.

SULZEER wrote:
> Any point in quoting message?


Well done on your second place =
> 12seconds is amazing for your age.

Thanks, but still not enough people are answering the question! {:)

Look at YH, Venom's and Namostar's posts.

Any point in quoting message?


Well done on your second place = 12seconds is amazing for your age.

The Game wrote:
> You should be happy.... Because you can run... some people
> can't

Some people don't even have enough food to last them a day.
> You've got free education, a nice christian family, loads of friends
> at school and on the net.

You have a playstation 2... some
> people haven't even had the education to be able to spell
> it!

With the money it cost your parents to buy you a PS2 you
> could have fed a whole village fo people in Ethiopia for about 2
> years...

There will always be someone better than you... and me
> and him and her and Sniper. Records aren't everything...

You
> should be happy that your alive and fit and well....

I'm not
> taking a shot at you Ant, but we should all look at the bigger
> picture... you may say...

"I live on benefit in a
> house" But some people don't have half that! or even 100th of
> it...

Make the most of life by all means, bot NO-ONE, and I mean
> no-one should be disappointed becuase of a little incident!

>Game

Superbly said Game. Well done.

But you've got completely the wrong end of the stick. {:)

Good post, though.

I think you should be happy.

Not exactly rocket science is it? :P

I'm normally dissapointed when I finish a game, eg CBFD. (too darn short)

If the difficultly setting on a game is right, most people shouldn't be able to finish it, in my opinion.

Is the thrill of the chase more fun than the kill?

Why do I seem unable to post more than one sentence per paragraph nowadays?

Is this a question rhetorical?

Was that a paradox?