Competition

"Everyone is born to compete as he chooses, but how can someone win if winning means that someone loses?"

This is a lyric from Scatman John's song, Scatman's World. Scatman John was a singer who used his speech impediment of stuttering for scat singing. I find this excerpt to be very powerful and can connect to a lot of things in my life because everywhere I go, there are people trying to compete with each other. For one, school is one of the most competitive places, and teachers encourage this. I feel like the world could progress faster if people would stop competing all the time to be the best at everything. I understand that there are the primal instincts of wanting to be dominant over your opponents or adversaries, but I just find competition pointless. Two or more things working against each other for a common goal. It conflicts itself. I frankly would enjoy a world where people weren't always bogged down by others because they're slow or not good at something.

"It's an irregularity, not a foul play, so why am I the only one getting a yellow card?"

That quote is from the Korean group, Epik High's song, New Beautiful. This version is slowed down to avoid copyright infringement. I don't understand why people make fun of each other when others are slow, bad, or can't do something. I feel like the most important part of the song by Mr. John Scatman is when he says,

"Scatman, fatman, black and white and brown man, tell me about the color of your soul." 

It doesn't make sense to judge the quality of a person's character only by what they can and can't do.