Competition can be an enriching part of your experience today, provided you look upon it as an opportunity to better yourself instead of a chance to prove your superiority. If you are aggressive in your endeavors, you will likely find that even winning cannot satisfy your need to prevail over others. Friendly competition for the sake of self-discovery, however, can be enlightening as well as enjoyable. Since you likely do not feel any animosity toward your temporary adversaries, you can pit your talents and skills against them without inciting their ire or anger. The games and challenges you take part in today may even bring you and your peers closer together.

Friendly and nonaggressive competition offers a way to test our development and skills against those of others without coming into conflict with the individuals we are endeavoring to outpace or outstrip. Though we will naturally work as hard as necessary to ensure that our efforts are more effective or successful than those of our temporary adversaries, we understand that a contest of this kind is typically not, and should never be, indicative of hostile or antagonistic emotions between the participating contestants. We can then observe how our individual aptitudes measure up to those of our contemporaries in a coherent, gracious, and rational fashion, without hurt feelings affecting either side. You can engage in competitive activities without becoming angry today when you recognize that winning and losing are less important than learning about who you are and what you are capable of.