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Some people think the most important thing that could be learned
from sports is competition. However, I disagree with them because competition could
have a bad influence on children’s mental health and the childhood is almost
the only period that they can have fun without a burden of competition.
To begin with, competition makes people
under pressure and sometimes it goes too far so be harmful for their mental
health. For example, it causes negative feelings like jealousy, self-depreciation,
stress in children’s mind. Even for grownups, these are quite difficult to
handle with and for pre – mature children, they could be significant problems. For
example, if children had to face with competition every time they participate
the sports, they might keep thinking about why they cannot be better than their
friends rather than think about how enjoyable sports is. This can make children
have bad cognition for sports itself or for the friends who participate with or
for themselves.
Despite of problems of competition like these,
we cannot avoid it in our life. This is the second reason why people should have
fun without competition at least in their childhood. For example, when we go to
school, we have to participate in competition to get better grade at exam. Even
after we graduate, we cannot get away from the competition because we should
try to get the job we want and after we get the job, then for better salary and
welfare. Like this, the whole life is competition itself and there is not much
time to enjoy something without pressure of competition.
Of course, there are some positive effects of
competition, too. However, at the childhood, people are vulnerable even for the
tiny attack to their mind. So we need to protect children from those mind attack. I think we all agree to that we need more fun and pure joy than more competition
that we are going to face with in last of our life whatever we want it or not.
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