Second place, is it really all that bad?

We make it so somehow in our language and culture, well second place, not first;

playing second fiddle, not so great apparently;

sometimes, maybe most of the time, we should be pretty stoked about second;

it means we were still at a very high level, we were still way way in front,

It means we tried; and hey, trying is worth it;

You were definitely in the game.

Nothing wrong with second.