no competition

The best selling and most read book in the World, which is the bible says those that compare themselves by themselves and themselves among themselves are not wise!Yes indeed, there is no basis for comparison with one another, you are unique and have your own path, i am me and you are you!We all have our different paths in life ahead of us, like a race, we are running against each other but in our own tracks!Contradictions?no, You are the only you that God has made, you do not have a copy like you, even if you have a twin, you are still different from him/her,i have brothers that look like me but are not me, we may have things in common and even do things the same way because we are related but we are indeed different!

This topic came to mind as i see a lot of people living a competitive life,a life of rivalry, feeling threatened by each other, wanting to do what the other is doing and trying to prove that they are better off than the other person!What i sincerely believe is that we should be complementing each other, celebrating each other's progress and helping one another when there is a need for it!I find this competing/rivalry traits not only in women but in men also and its sad as a lot of friendship have been destroyed as a result of this unwholesome competition, do not get me wrong, it is good to look up to people and want to emulate them, be what you think they are or rather want to live the life they live, especially if they are doing very well, but, to want to be any one other than yourself is a pain for me!

Let me give you an example, i am a big fan of Oprah Winfrey and i love her for what she is doing, i have followed her talk show religiously for almost ten years or more now and i will love to be like her, have my own talk show,Production house,Magazine, Publishing etc and live her kind of life, but be "me" living that path because its a path i see as worth following, but the truth is i CAN NEVER BE OPRAH WINFREY!I can copy her style, look like her, talk like her but can never be her!Oprah is Oprah and Jacque is Jacque!
She has her style and that unique style will always be vintage Oprah!To take this scenerio further, let me use an example of her best friend Gayle King, they have a lot in common and hang out together a lot, they are on radio together and sometimes Gayle is on Oprah shows on Friday Live in Chicago with her, yet there is no competition as Gayle knows she is Gayle and Oprah is Oprah!and you see genuine friendship and sisterhood between them!I have never seen or read or heard Gayle fighting to have her own show just like Oprah, trying to buy a house just like Oprah or wanting to date the same man Oprah is dating!..... i apologise for coming this far, but this is what we have happening today, a vicious circle of wicked competition/rivalry that leads only to pain and bitterness!

Lets sit and evaluate ourselves and know we are unique by ourselves, there is no another you in the whole universe, quit wanting to be like another, quit pulling others down because you are envious of their lives, quit blocking other people's path to greatness because you do not want anyone to make it like you have made it!
You are who you are and I am who i am. There is NO COMPETITION!