When we consider competition, we will find our life is filled with it all the time: When we are young, we compete over toys or praise from parents. In schools and universities, we work hard and compete with others over better grades, honors and basket ball games. When we begin to work, we will have competition over good job opportunities with tens or even hundreds of those who are also interested in it. Competitions are everywhere, everytime in our society. What’s more, competition is the crucial drive to our society, which makes it progress every minutes.
It is individuals that make up the society. Firstly and basically, competition is essential driving power to individuals. Everyone wants to be the best, thus comes the competition. In order to win, it takes more than enthusiasm and decisions. We need to make ourselves better so as to be the winner. Thereforce, we have to compare ourselves with our competitors. Are they better than I? How big is the difference? Where does it come from? What’s my deficiency? How can I improve myself? What can I learn from my competitors? Such kinds of thoughts urge us to re-evaluate others and ourselves and to improve. The pressure is turned into drive so that we are much more eager to learn more, to be better. For example, if we will have a basket ball game with another team. We will certainly take more exercise, analyze the rival’s advantages and disadvantages and try to gain from these. So to some extent, the heavier pressure of the competition, the more improvement we will make.
Our society also take advantage of all kinds of competitions, no matter among individuals, teams, companies, groups or parties. Since each wants to win, each parts work hard in order to be better, and consequently all of the competitors are better. This is, to some extent, how our society progresses. On the other hand, if political parts compete over the dominant power, they will try to offer appealing policies to people. If companies compete over customers, they will try to offer better products or services. All these not only help competitors to be better, but also also make people of our society to get better.
However, competition is rather to win than to defeat. If competitors put too much emphasis on the result, and try to defeat other competitors by undermining them, our society then will be harmed rather than improved. So it’s crucial for competitors to keep in mind that the ultimate meaning of competition is to improve itself. Any vicious method employed to hamper others in order to win will lead to a sick trend of our society.
In sum, competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society, as long as it is conducted in a healthy way.