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In real life, in movies, in my personal dealings, I've seen competition come to play and they all had either good or bad result depending on the situation it originates from. One of my most played song talks about how a girl competes with another girl who she thinks is going to steal her man from her, they both lost in that competition.

In as much as the world have painted competition in a bad light, there is the healthy competition that has for a long time produced great men in history and is still bringing out more people who would do great things. Growing up, I always see competition as something very simple, I just need to do extra and I'll win my rival.

That mindset changed or should I say, I was updated to understand better when I see people doing even the unthinkable in the pursuit of winning a competition or trying to prove that they are better in one aspect or the other. What I will never understand is people who compete to show who is younger, richer, fancier or more popular than the other. It makes no sense at all. 

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#### **Compete To Thrive**

We should compete to grow our strength and give less time to our weaknesses. I believe the origin of competition had a lot to do with trying to bring about a fair ground in order to avoid fights or imbalances. Be fair to your own life and get rid of imbalances by competing to thrive. We know our strengths, we should focus on growing them.

Growing up, I wanted to be the best in my class and I learned from the best in class then that I had to do more studying and play less. I saw the best student as my rival but it didn't hold me back from learning from her. Even though I learnt of her strategy, it helped me figure out my own strategy and I did even better in my studies then.

Nobody is perfect and we can never be like the other person next to us no matter how much we admire or want to be like them but when we compete to thrive, we learn even better ways to live with these people and be better versions of ourselves. It may not seem like a competition when we focus on ourselves but it's the best ever.

#### **Compete With Care**

As regards to focusing on ourselves, it's where competing with care comes in. A lady actually jumped down from a building to stop her rival from competing with her so she could win on the note of *"she's injured"*, even though it didn't end well for her, it taught me clearly that people do compete and forget caring for their health state. 

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People have made competition look difficult and impossible if there are no extra actions made to win by all means. In competitions, people have killed, some have badly injured their opponents, some have self injured and some forget to care for their mental state being too blinded with winning the competition, it's a scary one really.

Two ladies face off each other on a music competition and one in an attempt to spoil her opponent guitar strings, she harmed her fingers and couldn't compete at all. Her opponent won before her eyes and she almost went loosed in craziness because she called it upon herself. People now compete forgetting their true skill.

#### **Keep It Positive**

If every competitor will go into a competition with the mindset of these three things: They can win and they can still lose, they have a weak or strong opponent who also wants to win, whatever happens, they are still who they are. With these mindset, they will play the game in all positivity and might even win. What matters is, positivity.

And I'll say a big NO to whoever is going into a competition for the wrong reasons... I want to prove that I am better with someone who isn't even trying to prove same, or trying to be richer, look younger or be the best in owning material things. None of such competition ends well for many, it only cause strife among competitors.

So in my opinion, when a competition is not for the right reason, and it's not to thrive to being better, without care and positivity put in place. It's unhealthy and shouldn't be started by no means. 

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