With every human child born in the world, the story of achievement and success starts afresh. Initially the parents, then the teachers, then friends and then self – maybe in different orders – compel the child to be the best in whatever they desire to be. The desire to be the best in whatever they do, indirectly means that they have to be superior to everybody else in that field.
In the world, where everybody is united by a common thread and everybody has a unique role to play, the society loves comparing people and declaring winners and losers. It worships the winners and ridicules the loser. It has been going on like that for centuries and it will continue to be so, unless we realise where we are going wrong.
We are going wrong in our basic activity of pursuit of the goal of being the best. This activates competition. Sooner or later the competition becomes more important and the means to be the winner becomes everything. The path to degeneration is left open and we have seen that majority take the path.
If only, instead of ambition, excellence was the theme of the society, we would have walked on a different path. A path, where we would have still achieved everything, without sacrificing our soul. If our goal was not to beat everybody and be a winner, we would have taken along with us everybody, who was not as strong and intelligent as us. Then, we would not have looked down upon the losers and rejoiced as our being winners, but would have seen that we all march along together on the path to happiness.
