This video shows, time after time, how the one who thought he or she was the winner, and celebrated prematurely, learned the hard way that they needed to have worked until the very end to claim the victory. And had they, the victory would have been theirs. But there is another message as well, and perhaps an even deeper one. And that is that even when it seems that it is impossible to attain that goal of first place, that there is no way you can outrun or catch up or pass the one who is in front of you, if you focus on doing your best and your utmost, there are times, that at the very last second, you will attain that victory. In each instance, the difference between the ultimate winner and the one who gets second place is the effort at the tail end. The one who stops early and short, ends up falling behind. Whereas the one that puts in the most intense effort at the very end, is the one who ultimately succeeds. As it says in the Ethics of Our Fathers: “According to the effort is the reward,” (5:27). And that effort is from the beginning through the middle and to the end.
