Certainly from my point of view I think competitive sprit is not a bad thing. We should encourage it, because being a competitor helps us to achieve what we want. It becomes a ladder to go up in our lives. Not only for FIFA WORLD CUP, CRICKET WORLD CUP etc, today competition has become a regular thing in our regular life. We are living in a society which is full of competition over every thing.
School, working place, transportation etc have become core centers of competition. Students compete with each other by their knowledge to go through examination better than their colleagues, while people who work try to ensure their lives by earning competitively. In the case of transporation, in Sri Lanka most probably private and government bus drivers have become extremely competitive than others to enrich their pockets. Today there is a huge competition over a very small thing as well. So Unless we become an active competitor of this competition, we can't win our lives, because only the active competitor can achieve his goal successfully. If we take FIFA, only the most competitive team can achieve the gold award while the talented as well as competitive players receive other vital awards like golden boot etc. Other teams ultimately have to become spectators when they lost the game.
So always be competitive and show your potentials
Chathurika,
ReplyDeleteI agree that people should always be competitive. In Sri Lanka, sometimes I truly feel that a little healthy competition would be good for businesses but unfortunately many people don't appreciate it and get angry, which would then lead to many bad incidences - like burning down a competitor's shop, or bad-mouthing someone else's company just because they happen to be better at attracting customers.
For example, if a rich businessperson wanted to start a company that provides better and bigger air-conditioned buses for public transport, would the current bus companies decide to upgrade their buses to match this competition? I think not. They would then strike, or threaten the life of this businessperson simply because they think that he or she will take all their customers away from them. The simplest thing for them to do is to have a look at their competition, see the things that are good with it, and try to match it with their own bus company.
Thanks for posting! I enjoyed reading this.
Best wishes,
Karina