Dealing with defeat my way

I went this afternoon to the Education Student Council's Office, only to be told that I placed third in the Essay Writing Competition sponsored by the Learning Resource Center of our school.

Of course, the news rather disappointed me. I'm not the pseudo-humble person who says that joining the contest is in itself enough for him. Truth to tell, I expected to place first, and I guess the five others who joined the contest did.

And what exactly did I do to, at least, cushion this recent blow on my pride?

A. Pretend that I'm doing a greater good. Perhaps the winner needs to beat a person of my stature in order to raise her morale.

B. Recall my past accomplishments, which the winner obviously didn't achieve.

C. Take note of the fact that she wasn't published in any national broadsheet. I was. She wasn't a finalist in the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards. I was.

D. Take note of another fact that when you google her name, the only result that the search engine will yield is her Friendster or Facebook account and nothing else.

The answer is E: all of the above.

(OK, thus is imitated from Jessica Zafra. I just can't help it. I couldn't find a better way to say what I want to say. My apologies.)