We are living in a world of money. We live
in a world of dreams: trances for a lot of achievements. We share the stick of
life with family members, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We see great
accomplishments in some of these people. Competition is the art to supremacy-we
love supremacy nowadays. Why?
Human beings are like the rainbow: each and
every one of us has got his. You can be faint or be bold but all in all we are
the makers of the rainbow. We have objectives; we have targets. It is in this
life that we tie ourselves to resolutions. And we are supposed to achieve. But
the question is how SMART are we? As a person, one has to know herself/himself.
It is in knowledge of self that one can gauge the needed endeavour to achieve
the objectives at hand.
We may be employees, part of the working
circle. We have differing conditions in our contracts of employment.
Dichotomies in these conditions lie in the ability to communicate your needs
before conclusion of the contract: it does even depend on the levels of output
that you are giving (the change in conditions to an exquisite height). It is in
the cycle of employment that we will come across politics, it will be said that
someone is favoured only because though the ones he works with hold the same
qualification with them he earns a better remuneration. If the person is a lay
and the boss is a male, it will be said that she earns more because she dates
the boss.
Everyone has got his route. You may be
tussling with magical people or holding a rope against demi-gods. They have
their paths towards achievement of their objectives. Competition is the firth
to envy, hate and cries of fouls. Life is not about these things. Life is about
taking your own path; leading it too. Life is about chances not competition
against the masses. You may be in the ring with someone who has what he has to
attain what he wants to attain-someone possessing the right traits for such a
field. It is just like when you may be in a box with a candidate who does not have
the traits you have and hence he loses and the chance falls to your hands.
We are drowning ourselves into lives that
we never wanted to live: lives that we don’t want to live. We have always
wanted to beat someone. Our sticks turn unto us and it always whips us. There
are tensions and conflicts in offices. Teamwork suffers somewhere because
someone who received blows to the point crumpling and falling to the ground is
still holding onto his or her being smashed. It is the art of ‘poor competition
that has captures alphabets of office etiquette and procedures. Poor competition has made masses to forge the
meaning of an organisation (different people working together towards the
achievement of goals at hand). We have chosen to feed ourselves with venom as
we fought with those we did not know the kind of weapons they held.
We are disconnected from ourselves as
individuals. We have chosen to forget that as much as we are people, we have
different spots and these are the differentiating agents. If we could realise
that we are having ours that make us out-stand in our own positions, then we
will not drown ourselves.
The art of competition: it means searching
within to realise whom we are. It defines the ability to know our strengths and
weaknesses: surfing to understand why we fell yesterday. The knowledge of our
goals: the quantitative and qualitative measure of our achievements. It is in
that measure that we’ll come with strategies to reach higher measures- the art
of controlling. In trying to beat what others have, we will set objectives that
are not specific, measurable, attainable and realistic and well framed time
wise. We can talk of faith in doing
certain things. But no! it isn’t faith at times- it is simply being screened by
achievements of high achievers.
People have tried to live like others not
knowing that they are actually making them their demi-gods. They usually scream
to the achievements of others. They say, ‘he has this and that and I don’t have
it.’ You simply look to him: he sets the trend and you adhere to it. He is
conscientious and you are inept. In lacking that adeptness, it means you are a
real follower. But you see you are a bad follower because your fellowship makes
you drown. You are desolate. You are full of fissures- much riddled. You look
to the skies and you see no rains even though the skies are pregnant. You are
nemesis to your own soul-you are suicidal. You are a bad person with a bad
attitude and you need to change.
People have compared themselves to others
not knowing that they downtrodden themselves and their worth. Millions of
people have lost their careers, dreams and all good that could have reached
their palms. They couldn’t attain what was meant for them because instead of
looking within and beating what they achieved yesterday; they looked across and
across there was nothing to bring down. Never in life will any person put a
hand on what does not belong to him or her. Overlook people’s possessions and
look into your own and then goodness will follow and kiss you.
