Something that never ceases to confuse or amaze me, is how people like to make life a competition. I can understand being competitive at school, at work, at sports and so forth. The striving to be your best, is perfectly understandable. However there’s another side.
“I suffer more than you do!” is a phrase that I hear about every so often. It doesn’t matter who it’s directed at, but I do wonder where the competition is, in all of this? What’s the benefit of hurting or suffering more than someone else? Surely it doesn’t matter how much a person suffers in comparison to another person who is also suffering? Doesn’t it make sense to help each other overcome obstacles and discuss options like tips and tricks, on dealing with the trials of every day life?
Similarly, on occasion I hear of support groups, supposedly fighting for the same thing, bickering like school children among themselves. If they’re fighting for the same thing and discussing the same obstacles of everyday life with ways to overcome them, why fight each other too – it makes no sense at all and inevitably leaves someone looking very silly…
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