Competition and showing off
Once a schoolmate in the elementary school gave a party and his parents (we were 6 years old) organized the whole day as a pic-nic in a big public park. They also set up competitions, like hurdle race, high jumping, run-in-a-bag...I remember when I was told about the competition part: I still feel this pain in my stomach and the immediate wish of being somewhere else or of being sick for some reason, so I had an excuse not to participate in the games.
Why should we have competition to have fun??? Can’t we just have a party, eat, chat, dance and if we want, set up our own games without necessarily being engaged in a competition??? Can we decide if we want to run in a bag or not??? Maybe I don’t like competition because it’s never on a voluntary base, you are always pushed to jump in.
In all the individual sports since I was a child I was always the last one, when it was about competition. It stressed me so much the idea that somebody had to get first, second, third and that there was a last one, that I decided to be automatically the last one and I was fine with it. Finally it's not a big deal. At least I was not stressed and I did not feel the tension and pain in my stomach.
So it is maybe for all this competition issue that people who like to show off really annoy me. Because they go back to the same point of having a first a second a third…do we really need a top ten all the times? At a social extent, they are boring with all their unnecessary talk and their I, I, I, I...and normally they are also liars, which is another annoying thing. And their real capacity of doing and performing everything they say is almost equal to zero. These people really piss me off and I meet them all the time. Sometimes I've to remember that I'm in an official context and it's better not to reply. Like when I come back from meetings really in a bad mood, as today for example.
Finally the way they are, it's not my real problem. As it was not for the first, second, third ranking issue at school competitions.
Why should we have competition to have fun??? Can’t we just have a party, eat, chat, dance and if we want, set up our own games without necessarily being engaged in a competition??? Can we decide if we want to run in a bag or not??? Maybe I don’t like competition because it’s never on a voluntary base, you are always pushed to jump in.
In all the individual sports since I was a child I was always the last one, when it was about competition. It stressed me so much the idea that somebody had to get first, second, third and that there was a last one, that I decided to be automatically the last one and I was fine with it. Finally it's not a big deal. At least I was not stressed and I did not feel the tension and pain in my stomach.
So it is maybe for all this competition issue that people who like to show off really annoy me. Because they go back to the same point of having a first a second a third…do we really need a top ten all the times? At a social extent, they are boring with all their unnecessary talk and their I, I, I, I...and normally they are also liars, which is another annoying thing. And their real capacity of doing and performing everything they say is almost equal to zero. These people really piss me off and I meet them all the time. Sometimes I've to remember that I'm in an official context and it's better not to reply. Like when I come back from meetings really in a bad mood, as today for example.
Finally the way they are, it's not my real problem. As it was not for the first, second, third ranking issue at school competitions.
posted by Chiara at 12:37 PM
2 Comments:
Well Competition is running the affair of the world, whether you like it or not. Every body wants to be richer, wanted to have bigger house, bigger every thing. Well every body can be content with what ever they have; this could be a much happier world.
11:54 AM
Wanting be richer, or wanting to have a bigger house is not necessarily a competition. You can want a house bigger than the one you have now, not than someone's... but yes, sometimes it is about competition...for example, if you want to have a particular job, you have to be better than other candidates... and this thought stresses me!!
12:05 PM
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