We all know that our culture is very competitive, but are we really aware of details? Let’s look at some of them. One day we find ourselves not happy with just running. And we start to inquire about running competitions for non-professionals. Maybe even the whole classic marathon: 42 kilometers. We get bored with the same old grind three times a week and we want more. We want to compete. And we join running events. We will compete. That’s the spirit. We managed to turn our spare time into a struggle. Like the struggle of our job, which is inevitable, was not enough. I guess the running competitions...

Nowadays every fourth person in our Western civilization experiences mental illness. But maybe there is not more mental illness than years ago. Nowadays people are more likely to see a psychiatrist, in the old times they were more likely to self medicate with coffee, cigarettes and alcohol. Thus they never got into any statistics. Yet, on the other hand, something is different today due to progress and better standard. Families compete with each other because we have more. There is competition instead of collaboration in the struggle for mere survival like in the old times. Thus people with no family...

Modern woman is supposed to compete with her husband or life companion in order to prove equal. But she is also supposed to compete with her female friends, because competition is one of the basic principles of behavior in Western world. We learn to compete in school as little children and it sticks. As glorious as we may feel, when we win, competition as such is not the best thing for relationships. It keeps us apart instead of drawing us together. I wrote in one of my previous blogs that the key to a lifelong relationship with your partner is to be a team and not a competing pair (How to Grow Old...