Intimidation

If there is anything that has drawn a wedge between people in this world, intimidation and fear of other human beings are the causes. People who are intimidated by others because of their gifts or looks or economic status or martial status or God knows what else is just plain silly. If every person strived to be their best and not worry about what anyone else has or how much better they are then the word"competition" would lose its place in a lot of people lives.  I appreciate the fact that my mother never put me in beauty pageants or talent and fashion shows as a little girl. She raised me to never measure my self worth up against another girl or woman. During my teen years, if I dated a guy and found out he was seeing another girl, I dumped him without a struggle because I'm not getting into a competition with NOBODY!!!! If I couldn't be his ONLY girl then I wasn't his girl at all. That is one of the reasons why I married my husband because he showed me something different from the other guys that he wasn't a player and that I wasn't just number one but the only one. But so many people spend or should I say waste so many years of their life by trying to outdo somebody else. It is totally STUPID!!! Maybe my view of it might be absurd but people should be able to enjoy life without running up their credit to keep up with the neighbors. Another crazy thing that I see a lot is women putting wear and tear on their bodies giving the same man who they are sleeping with, babies to try and trap him to keep him in their life. Then comes all this baby mama drama. Some wars in life can be easily avoided if somebody would just get about two cents worth of common sense and let the other person have whatever they feel they are entitled to. The reason you should let them have it is because after they get it, it's not going to produce the satisfaction that they imagine it will. I'm not speaking on giving up and throwing in the towel for things and people who are worth fighting for and working for but I'm talking about immaturity, and just plain stupidity. One of the worse kind of competition is the kind that go on in ministry. Musicians trying to out play other musicians, preachers trying to out preach other preachers and singers trying to out sing other singers. First of all, JESUS is the ONLY STAR of the show and anybody who tries to take his glory with suffer the consequences. When people act like they are intimidated by someone else, the other person usually can pick it up and they might do or say something to make it worse in order to make themselves shine even brighter. But it's wrong on both parts. We should be able to appreciate the gifts in others and use our own talents to glorify God and not ourselves.