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Competition is healthy when it pushes people to do their best efforts into getting something and makes you aware of what you are capable of doing. However competition becomes unhealthy when a person becomes carried away and risks everything they have in order to be able to beat everyone else. Competition is faced during our lives most of the time and is difficult to be avoided. It can be competing for a job, a spot in college, a trophy, a person, or a spot in a school play. I believe it is something in our nature we do to survive or obtain what we want in life like animals compete for food mates and power.

Competition becomes unhealthy though when it turns you back to people you love, and when it brings out the worst in the competitors. Cheating for example can be a result of wanting to win a competition and can start problems within the competitors because it is unfair. A negative result of competition is betrayal. When “best friends” are competing for the same guy they will at one point turn their backs to each other because one of them will end up losing to the other one. This can affect self-esteem as well because the person loosing may wonder why they lost and become self-conscious by comparing themselves to the person who won. Hate can also be developed when competitors have lost and can be expressed through revenge. The girl loosing who competed with her best friend to get a certain guy might seek revenge and try to betray her friend by trying to steal the guy or making him cheat on her.

Competition is not always unhealthy but can become a negative experience when it brings out the worst in competitors, creates more problems, and divides relationships.