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Opinion Thursday: Competition Good or Bad

The July 11, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
Competition brings out the best and the worst in us. Should more activities or competitions be encouraged for children in schools?
Or should they be discouraged?

I see nothing wrong with competitions in schools, as along as it teaches children to strive to do their best. Teachers and others running the competitions need to help children learn from their failures. Competitions in school should be about learning instead of winning. In life a person does not always win, but one can learn something from failures.

morning thunderstorm
thunder rolling proclaiming
cool summer shower

cloud cover all day
the wind competing with clouds
for our attention

This afternoon I a struggling to write. I look out my window and watch the American flag waving in front of the house across the street. It sits next to an olive tree, which is one of the few left in this neighborhood. The trees in everyone else's yards look good, as if they could live another fifty years. The trees in my yard are pathetic dying or perhaps zombie trees because I know one of them must be among undead. It is just waiting for a strong wind to push it down and take out the power line in this neighborhood.

I do not have a green thumb. The only plants that will grow for me are weeds. I have no problem keeping weeds alive or getting them to bloom. I have beautiful oleanders in my yard and they bloom all year long, which proves that oleanders are weeds. Anything that I can grow is a weed and I know there is either a story or poem in that idea. Weeds compete with each other in my yard, but the trees die.

Thought of the Day: "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." - Indira Gandhi