Competition

I definitely think it's safe to say that America thrives and largely revolves around competition. Whether it's sports, academics, or business, the average American tends to desire to be ahead of everyone around them-their competitors. I mean at Charter it's no secret that most of the students would like to be earning higher grades or honors than other certain classmates. We all want to be the smartest! And then you have commercial examples, like when you see five different coffee shops all within a mile of one another on the road. Each shop advertises their own special deals or sales in hopes that they'll catch the majority of consumer's attentions. All of this is normal to us because we see it every single day. I sometimes wonder what it'd be like if competition were not a factor, and every business were government owned and standardized. I feel like it'd be pretty boring! One thing I recently noticed during a two mile race I ran at a meet was that passing my competitors is seriously so much fun. I have no idea how I disregarded this feeling before, but now all I want to do is go faster and pass people instead of just passively be passed. Maybe our society relates to this, they must realize how gratifying it is to be stronger than others too, not in a mean way though of course!