"Why is everyone in such a big competition with each other? Can't be that serious right?"

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A good friend of mine asked ... ("Good" friend ... why 'good'? is a "friend" ever a 'bad' friend? Challenge: accepted! NOT) 'Competition over what?' I don't know, but I think it's just that people are generally "in competition"---i.e. to be "the best" at whatever they can be good at. (And we mortals can only tell if we're 'the best' if there are others whom we are 'better than) I am perhaps the living proof of 'not being that serious,' because I'm 'not that serious' about making money, -about living large, -about accomplishing great things. And thus I am in a lower "caste" than I feel I ought to be. I feel less-worthy of the life that I humbly wait to have bestowed on me. And while I'm waiting, the less-humble unworthy go out & take it BEFORE it can be bestowed upon me---teaching me that I MUST take what I want before it's whisked away! Pray that my patient faithfulness is hangs on to 'life' more-firmly than the flashy wealth of those who want it all to themselves I think it gets summed-up in a verse (7) from today's Psalm (Psalm 120): "I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war." 'They' think that--if I am giving something--it must be something I've bought (giving something else for) or something I've stolen (the Quid without the pro Quo ... or is it the Quo without the Quid pro?)