Kevin Durant once said in an interview, "I don't believe I'm better than anyone. But I don't believe anyone is better than me." It seems like an egotistical statement to say at first, but if you really think about it, it's an amazing mindset to have. As individuals with our own successes, we should be humble in our own rights, but still have an empowering belief in our own confidence and the things that we do. It may seem like Kevin Durant is trying to say that when it's all said and done, he believes he's better than everyone else, but truly, we have to be humble enough to know that we're not superior to anyone else, and motivated enough to know that we'll always be inferior to our competitors.
Sometimes, though, I take life a little too much as a full-on competition. I see my friends as my competitors, and when someone is my competitor, I'll leave past friendship and all of that soft stuff to pursue an achievement. But then again, what is the point of that? I remember taking my SAT for the first time, and my friend getting a higher score than me. I remember being so upset at myself, for ever letting up against that person. I personally saw myself as more equipped, and thus I wasn't really happy for her, but I was supposed to, because she was my friend. I remember ranting to my teachers about how upset I was because of the fact that she had a higher score than me, because she was my "competitor". But my teacher told me that "You're in competition with yourself. You should challenge yourself. You're your own competitor." I'm 50/50 on that belief, but I still believe that people chasing for what I want as well, are always my competition. And I wouldn't mind winning.
