Close relationships often have their ups and downs. When one spends enough time with a person it is inevitable that they will have an argument. Best friends, for example, share everything with each other. They laugh together, cry together and trust one another completely. Yet throw a boy that they are both interested in into the picture and they are lying and backstabbing their way into his arms. Or perhaps they are both dying to play Juliet. Suddenly they view each other as enemies who will stop at nothing for the part. One might spread rumor

Another example of perfect strangers having contempt for one another is at a job interview. A person walks into the waiting room, sees the other perspectives and automatically begins to build his case against these people. He has not met a single person in the room and already has a negative list beginning to form. It is situations such as these that condition people to pre-judge and make assumptions before a conversation even takes place. What is worse is that these people are not children or even teenagers, but full-grown adults. Perhaps competition would not be such a concern if it was something a person grew out of over time, but if anything the person becomes more conniving and vicious.

s about the other or sabotage her audition. Even something as innocent as grades can turn into a knockdown, drag-out, fight to the finish. They resort to cheating, or anything that will give them a leg up from the other. These crazy situations are just a few of the many examples that show how competition can create feelings of resentment, bitterness and even hatred between people who at one point were inseparable.

People today forget what a strong hold competition has on our world. Not only can it influence decisions and change personalities of our best friends, but it can cause entire nations to completely destroy other entire nations and when focused on the effects it has on relationships, basically bri

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