Competition (Feb. 17)

There are moments in life when you need to have a spirit of competition. There is some innate sense by which everyone knows this to be true. Every kids that doesn't want to share knows this to be true. Competition in and of itself is not a bad thing but there are moments when competition is nothing but a sentence of anger and frustration in the midst of a setting that should not have those things. The trick then is to figure out what moments in life are okay to have that bit of competition and what moments in life should not be about the competition but about something else, something more personal and more concerned with people. If one allows competition to drive them they may achieve greater things but to do it at the cost of relationships makes for a sad and lonely person.