Journal Entry 2

Competition has always existed amongst people and plays a great role in society. Since the earliest days of the cave man to modern day man being jealous of his neighbors car. Society revolves around competition today. Without competition we wouldn't have the marvelous inventions of today or the sports entertainment on t.v. Competition is healthy because it gives certain people aspirations to be better, physically and mentally. Although competition usually leads to someone trying to one-up another person it's this act that grants us newer and greater objects, ideas, and people. Unfortunately, with competition also comes conflict. Not all people can peacefully resolve their conflicts which makes competition unhealthy to a certain extent. Fights break out every day over petty arguments and most of those arguments revolve around some sort of competitive act. A most notable real life instance is fights with your siblings over a game of some kind. The older child is usually the better of the two which leads the younger kid to accuse their sibling of cheating or hacking. If the younger child is the better one that leads to an even greater conflict where the older child becomes out raged and believes the win to be blasphemous.