I write this in protest of the numerous unequal rivalries that I have had to encounter and fight against all these years. Firstly, competition can only be amongst equals. I am not saying that I am unmatched, but since I have to compete with all unequal rivals, the game gets murkier by the day.
Why does one have to stoop to the level of rivals who are probably several notches below the rung? Just because they assert their equality? Can I claim to be equal to Aishwarya Rai or Katrina Kaif? Then how are they allowed their flawed misconceptions that they are equal or better than me in my field? Why is there all this insistence to compete against unequal rivals?
I have nothing against competition. I have been competing, taking tests, waiting anxiously for results, getting through most times, failing others. But none of my rivals has done even half of all this. And still they are my equals!
Ok, I admit, that I feel that many of my rivals don’t even exist for me, that they are somewhere down below, groveling in the dust, and that it is going to take some divine intervention to get them anywhere even half my level. So, where is the question of competing against them?
Why make a case, especially against me, for them? Just by proclaiming loudly to the world that they are competing against me doesn’t make them any better.
I have enough trouble brewing on in my life; just spare me all this mindless anarchy that I have to cut through to get across.
