–Anonymous
Competition is a simple concept: There can only be one winner; while one side benefits, the other side is negatively affected. I’d say we live in a pretty competitive world. Usually when you think of competition, you think of sports. But competition is around in every instance of life. For example, The Olympics is competition not only for the best athletes, but also for the world countries to display their power on the global scale. Another example would be how just recently Google released Google+, which is basically like a new social networking platform and I have to admit it is pretty awesome. Free conference video calling and things called “circles” which is basically like social circles in real life. Many say they are trying to rival Facebook, which beat out all of its competitors over the past decade ranging from Friendster to MySpace. About a couple of weeks ago, me and some friends were at the Galleria and we noticed how there was a newly opened Microsoft Store, much like the popular Apple Stores (except for the fact that the Chinese people haven’t attempted to open fake Microsoft Stores yet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/china-fake-apple-stores_n_904409.html). That’s two technology giants competing against each other in the same mall, on the same floor now that’s classic competition. Other examples include Cell phone companies, fast-food chains, pre-med candidates, condom makers, women, and the list goes on and on. It’s human nature to be competitive, also known as survival of the fittest. Adaptation to the environment to become better is the only way to stay alive as long as possible, again basic biology. Common-sense wise, nothing could last forever, everyone dies. Companies change marketing strategies or develop new ideas to adapt to changing consumer behavior or the changing economy. Businesses die when competitors beat them out of the market. Cell phones destroyed the pagers that doctors use to use. Floppy discs were replaced by CDs, which were then replaced by flashdrives. Here’s a list of other products and everyday items that were popular a decade ago and now are literally extinct http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/648/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about. The world is dynamic and that is why the world has competition. Everyone wants to win. But not everyone is going to win and get what they want. Simply put, that’s just how life is.
Personally, I like competition. After all, that don’t which kill you can only make you stronger. While winning isn't everything, wanting to is. While most are dreaming of success, winners wake-up and work hard to achieve it. Winners build on mistakes. Losers dwell on them. But in the end, competition could get the best of us. I’ve learned that it’s essential to not be so caught up in winning and lose sight of what’s right and what’s wrong. Ultimately, I despise serious competition with people I care about, from friends to family because it will never end well. Friends can easily turn into enemies, family to foe. This is the reason why for me, friendly competition is the best scenario. This way win-or-lose, it doesn’t matter, because it’s literally not a game, just a win-win situation. And if friendly competition turns into serious competition, I always believe it is in my best interest to give in, it is not worth losing an important person to competition because then it would be a lose-lose situation.
Since I try to make every post as insightful as possible, for my second topic I’m going to borrow an article from Yahoo.com that is ridiculously intuitive. Now yahoo usually has some pretty bs articles that make no sense at all, but this one I’d say is actually pretty accurate. So this section is for the men out there who feel the need to classify the women in their lives. Oh and as for the women out there, just……don’t worry about it:
The “Love at First Sight” ones capture your attention immediately. They usually are the girls with a heart. She seems like someone you could actually approach no matter who she is and how popular she is.
The “Eye Candys" are the ones you’re physically attracted to, yet you can’t connect with her conversationally. They could be perfectly nice, or even massive assholes, but it’s not only their personalities. Either it be a mismatch of intellectual interests, or just an unexplainable dead end to every conversation that you force to start to begin with, its too bad.
The “Demon Sluts" are the ones you’re physically attracted to, but treat you like shit, playing you and giving you hope here and there so that attraction is maintained. In the chauvinistic male world, this would be the star example of success: a PlaYaAAAA (hollllaaa). But its actually a terrible thing. You know they’re bad for you, but you keep at it.
The “Dream Girls" are the pretty people that you’ve always held a vested interest in, and you do talk a certain amount, but they seem just a tad out of your reach so you’re at a constant internal struggle. You might have a perpetual crush on them that you don’t really consider real because you put them out of your reach. Yet in the ultimate chance that either they’re interested in you or that you have a plausible chance, you would immediately kindle the flame that never really blew out. Usually incites an “OH WORDD?!!?” whenever someone tells you she might be interested, and is also the typical response of your friends whenever you tell them about something significant [except not really] that happened between you and her.
The “Feminine Bros" are the ones you liked a long long time ago, and became close, but it ended well. Now you’re homies for life! Or even just girls that you acknowledge are pretty but never found physically attractive to you. In the end, you guys just become really good friends that your guy friends INSIST that are going to hookup or whatnot but you know for a FACT thats not going to happen any time soon.
The “On My Minds" are the ones that you just click right away; a smooth rooted first impression that grows into a solid trunk of interest, then branching out into endless topics of conversation (see what I did there). After you first meet the person, you know theres potential; its just up to you to either:
1.Get it out of the texting/internet flirting stage and make it something tangible. Key is maintaining the attraction and meeting them IN PERSON.
2.Let it just fizz out and die. Be relatively unresponsive. Usually what the “I shut it and cut it as soon as I sense something” people do.
3. Fail at getting it out of the cutesey texting/internet flirting stage and become friends.
4. Realize you’re not physically attracted to her at all, you just connect as human beings. Friendship lane!
The “Potentials" are a variant of On My Minds in the sense that these are the ones that just become prettier and prettier the more you see them, talk to them, and hang out with them. You wonder why you never saw them in a romantically attractive light before. You don’t necessarily talk to them a lot online or whatever, but you see them in person often, whether it be with groups of friends or just while walking to the dining halls, and she catches your eye more and more.
The “Little Sisters". They might as well be a different species. All you know is that you care about them a lot and can get protective over them, but your eyes go into a different viewing mode when they come into play. Adorable at best.
The “Bros". Basically the homies who fart and burp in front of you. (AWWWWWW YEAH)
Alrighty so I’ve got a couple weeks of summer left in Htown, might as well make the best of it. So far, theres been a great streak of late Friday night rambunctious entertainment, let’s keep them coming. Unce unce unce.
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