Dennis had always been a loser.
Right from his childhood, he had been obese. His mother had brought up him on a steady diet of pastries, cakes and sweetmeats. For the first 15 odd yrs of his life, not one meal time had passed him by where he did not end it with dessert. In fact so much so, that eating sweets had become his comfort mechanism.
Dennis had always been a loser.
Right from simple games at school like running races, soccer, cricket or simply running around the school playground, he was the clumsiest and slowest courtesy his weight and ungainly girth. He was always made fun of, he was always the joker in the pack, he was always the laughing stock.
Dennis had always been a loser.
The one time that he had tried acting in a play, the wooden stage creaked and shuddered so much when he was up on it that the headmaster had to intervene and stop the play in the interest of the safety of the entire audience and the others on stage. In any case, the role was an unsubstantial one, that of a tree with eyes, without any dialogues. After this incident, no one dared to ask him to participate in any other school activity which involved coming up on stage.
Dennis had always been a loser.
At college, though girls became friends with him easily enough, he soon realized that was because they treated him completely different from the other guys. He was more like a conduit through which they passed their messages to other guys. He was not even close enough to be called their friends as they didn’t treat him with enough love and affection that they treated even their acquaintances. To the girls, he was more like a use and throw paper napkin than anything else. He was their friend when they wanted something to be done by him and he was persona-non-grata when they didn’t have any specific use for him.
Dennis had always been a loser.
But today Dennis was the winner because he was a loser.
For the past 30 days, Dennis had been part of a competition which truly tested him, pushed him to the limits of his patience and endurance, probed his mental and physical strength, and he had persevered enough to be the winner.
Even today Dennis was a loser, but he was the winner because he was the ‘biggest loser’. He had just won the competition – Biggest Loser Wins!!!
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This post is part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by Blogadda.
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This post was picked as one of the WOW picks of the week on August 12th, 2013.
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this is brilliant … all the best for the contest !!
@Sangeeta, WoW is not necessarily a contest, just an initiative by Blogadda to encourage bloggers to overcome their writers’ block and give them a prompt to write with every weekend, that’s all.
In any case, thanks for the kind words regarding the post itself 🙂
I liked a few of your writings, I was wondering if you are interested to write a post for my blog or we can even have a blog exchange. If interested I would be requiring your post by sunday. You can contact me directly on onlymeinc@yahoo.com. Thanks
@thewhiteescape, first of all, thanks for visiting the blog and liking some of my posts. I have mailed you at the e mail id mentioned. We can take it forward from there.
a good one 🙂 congrats for the WOW 🙂
@Saurabh, thanks for the kind words 🙂 and congrats on your post getting picked up for WoW as well 😀
Hey, a big congrats for the win! This post surely was one different take. I quite liked the idea! 🙂
Keep writing. 🙂
@Srishti, thanks a lot for the kind words