Long way to go

Yesterday I got an e-mail related to Hundred lessons learnt from blogging and the post is awesome. It made me a bit jealous as i don’t see myself write a post or page like that as it’s a very well written and prepared page. And I’m quite sure Alden has spent quite some time making it, as putting one hundred items would take some thinking and time.

So I was comparing myself with him and felt myself ‘lower’ than him. As I often feel myself ‘lower’ than other people. And many ‘self help’ guru’s and sites and everything say you should not compare yourself with others. But of course I do, you do. I guess everybody does.

And why not focus on our strengths, not our weaknesses? I’m quite sure there are areas I am better than Alden. So why feel below him just because he created something nice I can’t create or only could create with the greatest effort?

So what is this ‘feeling lower’ that I guess many people have. It doesn’t make any sense as everybody is just born somewhere, lives his or her life the best he or she can or the best he or she knows. And then dies. I mean, we’re all just human, in the end, in the very basic the same. So not ‘more’ or ‘less’ than other human beings. Not ‘better’ or ‘worse’ than others. And in the end not more successful or unsuccessful than others.

So what is this competition thing? Where does it come from? What’s the use? And the more I think about it the more I also think that we should abandon this competition thinking that is everywhere. And of course the ‘use’ is that it comes from the biological selection process. That the stronger genes will survive. But humanity, humans, somehow bypassed that. As we don’t leave mentally or physically disbled people behind (so they would die). We do anything to save babies who don’t have the basic capacity to live. We save human beings who are in danger, who are wounded.

And yes, the weirdest thing is that we can go to war and wound each other or kill each other and then finally help each other to recover, get better.

So why can’t we push that a little further, that helping each other, supporting each other? Why not ‘always’ and not only when people are in need?

Looking forward to your comments on this.

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