Why we have so many excuses and reasons if we never get what we expected?

It's so true. Every single day, someone, if not everyone uses excuses for everything that didn't happen "right". I think we are like that by nature, we can't accept failure very well. If we weren't to do this maybe we would be able to correct what we did wrong the first time that made us not succeed.

This is comparable to the attitude like in an election if the Philippines that if the candidate lost, they we're cheated or any other excuse that you can think of. These are the attitude that I think we should be avoiding if we want progress and let's move forward because a loss is a way to win next time.

i think it is because having an excuse lessen the disappointment and frustration we feel everytime we fail to achieve what we wish to achieve. isn't it true that even if we don't expect that much it still hurt when we don't get what we want. it's a natural reaction when we meet failures. it's just how life is...

Hi friend, This is a fact that we complain of our fortune more than Nature. The kinder the latter the harder the former. There is lack of both introspection and retrospection what I feel. Mere complaining against our fortune or finding faults with other would never help. what is necessary is to look into the shortcoming of yours. Just taking the example of Ms. Universe I have seen them becoming one from a country you would probably need to check the maps to locate the place but why not from Philippines or India or China?

I think it's very Pinoy to find an excuse after a loss - it happens all the time. In a basketball game for instance, if a team doesn't win, either it's luto or the refs have preferential treatment for the other team. I guess the best way to look at this is to simply accept that there are others who are better, that's when the cliche-ish saying, "Better luck next time..." applies. It wasn't our time to win the title Ms. Universe again. This pass the bucket attitude isn't really healthy because it makes a person not accountable for things that he or she has done. It's important to accept things as they are and not to expect so much. Nice topic.Ü

Hello Martin, Failure is normally cannot be accepted so easily.But just like what winners always say " i win and you lose...that's the real fact " Wether the loser will commented and say against the winner and even if the loser will enumerate all excuses just to lift her ego..it doesn't make a sense anymore.The WINNER IS PROCLAIMED...who will care to hear the loser's explaination then? Acceptance should always be the name of the game...be a sport.Always bear in mind that in every contests/battles...there is only two categories to be considered...WINNER and LOSER. And as a Filipino,we should accept that,our Expectant lose this time...let's try again next time..

I think it's normal to some who cannot immediately accept being lost especially if they think they have done their best. I haven't heard yet about the excuses, but I suppose what they should do is to analyze the situation. Ms. Venezuela won 2 in a row, and they have been winning multiple times. Therefore, it would be better if the local coordinators of Ms. Philippines will study the data and check how they can improve. Unfortunately, not accepting losses is also visible to our local elections which shows being unprofessional among politicians. Thanks!

This is always a common reaction of people who never know how to treat life fairly. Well, if we look at the real meaning of life, defeat is normal and so with failure, we can never attain what we want in life all the time, it's pretty amusing on why we could not just face the truth. As a Filipino, me too had high hopes for Bianca Manalo to place in the Ms. Universe tilt and I was even a little disappointed when no Asians managed to be in the top 15 semifinalists. But I regained my composure quickly and just treated Ms. Universe contest as one of those contest out there who always have a disappointing twist that may not be favorable to other people. But I never blamed anybody or even Bianca why everything failed. It is a reality that we must accept and hopefully learned from those failures so that the next time, Philippine representatives will be more cautious and mindful what things to be done.