I’m not a big gamer, but one of my favorite video games is Super Mario World. There are still times I will bring out my Super Nintendo and play that game. Even though I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve completed the game, I still enjoy the levels. All of them except for one. Tubular in Special World still makes me cringe just thinking about it. I still have nightmares of the first time I came across this level. I think I died over 100 times trying to beat it. I got so mad I had to turn off the game and go do something else for a while (and this happened a couple of times). It got to the point where I debated just quitting on the level. Since it’s in Special Word, I didn’t need to beat it to beat the game. But I am too stubborn for that. So I tried over and over. Each lost life made me feel more and more defeated. [Read more…] about Finding Victory In Defeat