When the world was young and the societies were getting formed, people flocked to each other as they were afraid of being alone. Their survival was based on the reality of them and their group being stronger than others, whether those others - were animals or people from another group.
Since people were, and still are, different, some were stronger, more intelligent than other and those, who were stronger & more intelligent , took a larger share of everything, as it was obvious to them that they can demand and get whatever they want. Less strong people gave, as their survival depended on that. But if you don’t give from the heart, you try to find ways - not to give, and if you are ambitious, then switch over the side – to take, also.
Competition came as less strong people were jealous and desired what strong people were enjoying. People wanted safety and protection, but did not want to shell out anything extra to those who were giving them safety and protection. So, a conflict arose.
A conflict that is still continuing. The form and substance of the same has changed, the gist has not. It is, in fact, accepted that competition has to be there, if the world has to improvise. Competition brings new things up and that is how the world is developing, evolving. We feel, since we are so narcissist, that the world is evolving because of our activities. We don’t grasp that the world is evolving as it has no other option. It requires great intelligence and sensitivity like that of Mr Albert Einstein to exclaim that the inventions credited to him were destined to come and it was just his good luck that it came thru him. Similar sentiments were echoed by Mr Bill Gates, when he made the statement that he was in right place at the right time to reach where he is right now. Lesser people attribute their achievements to their personal effort and tenacity and not a part of the evolving universe.
The universe has a plan and we are a part of that plan. The problem starts when we also make our own plan, oblivious of the universal plan. These may or may not be in harmony. If, they are in harmony, you can feel that as everything comes naturally to you, otherwise life becomes a conflict – between what IS and what I WANT. And since we feel that our self made plan is best for us, we don’t want to follow the hints coming to us in our life almost every day. We struggle and struggle and in that life takes its toll. We may achieve what we set for, but we don’t realise, what all we lost on the path. If only, we would have bothered to be present in each of our moments, the evolution would have come to us sitting in our own house taking us to zenith of whatever we were doing.
Since, we don’t know this, competition has become very valuable and desirable in the present society and that is the way, life will go on. We are honing our intelligence to make it sharper for all competition, to achieve our destiny by actually gagging the voice of heart, which would have taken us to the pinnacle, if only, we could dare to listen to heart instead of mind.
