Life is not a competition.

This post was "inspired" by my exams...and by life itself, honestly.
 I mean, look at the picture above, isn't it the perfect definition of our life now?

We all want to "win" at life. You hear it from people on social media, you read about it in the books, you see all these "How to be winning" tutorials and advices, and you think "I really should win this, I have to do everything to achieve that"

But wait a second.

Wait and think, what is it exactly you are winning? Or that one social outcast, that everybody calls a loser, what did they lose?

Nothing.

I wish someone told me, I wish someone taught me that this life IS NOT A COMPETITION. I mean, yes, evolution had it perks, the strongest ones survived, but it also taught us that only cooperating will get us to the true success.

You were born, which means you are already a winner, you won a life and that's the biggest award.
And to think that people spend that life turning it into some constant contest of who is better, it's horryfying me...I don't want to do that. I am not obliged to and neither are you.
I spent my entire teen years, always worrying that I was somewhat worse than the others. I did not want to be below in that score I created in my head. I used to be obsessed with getting best marks, best everything and if I got anything less than the best then I would literally think of dying. I know just how bad it sounds, and what is worse is that, it wasn't only me. I look around and see people trying to achieve goals they do not truly need, in order to impress others  and convince themselves they "won one round".
There is a huge difference between wanting to be successful and to be a winner. Because on first case, there will be no losers. It will be just you on the road, that you chose, and it will be only your path.

It's good to compare yourself with other world every once in a while, but if you see it as some huge Olympics Game, then I am sorry to break it to you...but then we all are destinied losers.
1. You can't be better at everything.
2. There will always be someone who is smarter, prettier, wealthier (and anything else) than you.
And chances are, these people will never find out that they won...at your life.