Today’s world is a vey competitive one. Post LPG, everything is competition driven right from basic necessities to the luxuries of life.
From one point of view, competition in the market is essential for bringing prices down and for coming out with quality products. Its true that competition benefits ‘we’ as customers. On the other hand, competition has led to producing de-graded products with attractive packaging for keeping in the race.
Nevertheless, competition prevails not in markets, or trade alone, but in normal life as well. For in a life cycle, a man competes right from his childhood. It’s being hammered into a child’s head that until and unless he is competitive, he cannot survive.
As a child grows up he has to compete over his entire education to achieve something. Once he is out of his education, next comes his job scenario, where competition has no leaps and bounds. He has to be the best for securing the best of jobs. Next phase is his marriage. He would want to get married with such pomp and glory like never done before.
Competition is responsible for the progress we see today, it brings out the best in an individual, but at the same time it has led to outbreak of wars, and indirectly been a cause of social evils like jealousy, hatredness, suicides, and calamities like floods, famines, earthquakes.
Fine, we are led by competition throughout our life. But my question here is, ‘Is competition necessary? You may say yes, but then my question is for how long? If we are going to compete right from birth, until death , when is that we are going to breathe a life?
