Are You Competitive or Compassionate?
Posted on February 28, 2008
Recently, I met a women who focuses her business on educating people, mainly women, how to stop using competition in their daily lives. For example, she mentioned her parent’s would compare her grades to her sister and vice versa — mainly for the sake of pushing the “lower performing” sister to try harder the next time. She mentioned she’d like to see women stop comparing themselves to others or competing with each other and instead create an interaction that is more focused on compassion and helping one another.
As she was talking I couldn’t help think about my high school days and the silly games played back then. As adults, I think we can reflect that our behavior at that time in our lives was immature. But, how many women still do this today? I was surprised to hear the passion this woman had for the topic because I just don’t see the competition occurring with the women in my life. If you read the infertility blogs you’ll soon realize that the women who participate in the community are compassionate and truly care about each other. Within the organizations I volunteer with, the March of Dimes and RESOLVE, the women are open, warm and become friends outside of their volunteering.
A few days ago I posted a request on Mamasource.com. One of my twins has regressed a little in her potty training so I posted a question asking other moms for advice. The feedback and responses were kind and informative. I don’t see any attitudes of “it’s all about me and I’m jealous of what you have” in that community.
Maybe I don’t see the negative women relationships as the communities I’ve chosen to join or the women I hang around are much for focused on how we can help each other for the greater good of all of us. What type of women are you hanging around?
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