I know I am a little perfectionist. If i know I can achieve something and I want to achieve it, it's not enough that I do OK with it, I want to do it perfectly, like an exam of a subject I know I'm good at or a birthday card that I will make for hours if needed in order to get the best possible result. Some people complain about my need to do so well in everything, but I disagree with them. It's not about showing off or wanting to prove that everyone else is beneath me, not at all. If i have a goal that matches my chances or goes a little higher, it is the one thing that motivates me the most and isn't that exactly what people should have? Yeah, motivation.
Allright, I admit that sometimes it is also about being the best, which can also work as a motivation. It is just comforting to know that someone is suffering more than you are and then it's nice to know that your hard work paid off. And there is just that little something, the victorius excitement of winning that you can taste when you know you were the best. Yeah, I recognise being a competitive person. But even in general, a competition is what drives people to do things they never imagined, bend their limits, go to the dark side and manipulate and lie and cheat, force themselves to physically or mentally incredible achievements and they're willing to sacrifice a lot. The extremes of that can mostly be seen in reality shows but some of those also in normal everyday life.
But what annoys me with competitions where there is an actual prize, is that there is usually just one winner. Unfortuntely, that makes the rest of them losers. It can be a sports competition or an exam or whatever, the winner is always remembered and praised the most. What about the guy who always was among the worst 3 and now reached up to the top 10? I guess he knows he did well, but does anyone else? No. That is also the thing with ice-hockey, for example. It's the most irritating thing in sports and I never will get tired of getting annoyed by it. If you are competing for the bronze medal, it's such a huge victory and a source of joy when you get it. But then when you're fighting for the gold and you happen to lose and only get silver, it is like the end of the world. Ehh... Silver is more valuable than bronze? Silver means you're the second, not the third or fourth? So please, sports people, when you lose the gold, smile. 'Cause you have still achieved great things. My point is, that although I know how nice winning is, it is overrated. It's not always about it. Hmm.. Am I undermining my own words? Could be, but somehow, to me it makes perfectly sense.
I hope you managed to follow my thoughts... And now the Winner takes it all.
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