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Today we live in a society that glorifies competition with others as an inevitable part of life, because apparently it ‘motivates’ us to perform better. Hence the idea of ‘healthy’ competition. But can competition really be healthy and is it even a necessary component of our modern culture?   I personally don’t think so.  To me, competition means comparing yourself to others, and more often than not, this leads to feelings of low self-esteem and a loss of dignity.  Why? For the simple reason that, it doesn’t matter where you fall on the win-lose pendulum, competing with others will always lead to some sort of disappointment because by definition, competition depends on the external validation of others. Plus, competition doesn’t really work because each of us is unique and competition forces us to fit into a predetermined label of perfection that doesn’t really exist because humans aren’t generic. Also, when you’re constantly competing with others you find that there’ll always be