▶ Your Answer :
Some people might say that competition can stimulate you and rather it can make more strong bond among friends.
However, in my opinion, there are only adverse effects on friendship from doing
competition. In this essay I will present two reasons to support my idea.
To begin with, excessive competition can
incites deterioration on relationship among friends. To be specific, the
meaning of success has changed completely compared to the past. In the past, it
was merely focusing on one’s own way and excelling others, now it is different.
You cannot be good on your own. It is sometimes necessary to people who can
support you and help you out hard times. So it had better to harmonize with
your friends and help each other rather than colliding through competition. For
instance, I will give an example of my friends. When I was a high school student,
there were two of my friends who tried to enter the school representative
soccer team. There was only one spot. So both of them tried their best. But the
problem was competition between them became too aggressive to make them insult
each other as to their soccer skills. Eventually they became distant
On top of that, also competition interferes
people who need to reduce their stress. Since everybody has stress, it is really
crucial to relieve stress. To be specific, having the outlet for stress has a
meaning in itself since it helps people regain energy and find the strength to
go on. People nowadays have pressure not only physically but also mentally. So
it will help people get back on track. For example, I will give my experience.
When I was junior in university, there was a girl that I sincerely loved but
the problem was one of my friends also loved her. So we both endeavor to do
best to her. Since I recognized he was rival, I always compared to him when I do
something for her and sometimes l felt not only loss of confidence but also obsessive
compulsive disorder (O.C.D.) concerning to loss her. That was really stress.
To sum up, considering that competition
itself can be hindrance against relationship among friends and also harm the
relief of stress, I strongly believe that competition usually
has adverse influence on friendship |