I'm not your competition.
You know what's really awkward? Someone openly referring to you as their personal competition. You, and your accomplishments, mark their competition. Weird, right? I mean, at first I was flattered. Flattered that they felt I was someone worthy of competing against, someone they could mark their own successes against. That seemed kind of cool, and indicated to me that I was obviously doing some stuff in my life well. But then I really thought about it, and I realised that actually, it was a little insulting. Competing against someone means that someone has to lose. Effectively, this individual basically told me they use me as a benchmark and try to do better. They want to be better than me. But if they do better than me, that's not going to be good for me, is it? I want to be the best if we're making this a game! I'm being totally honest when I say I don't compete with anyone. No one- and I mean no one- that I know has the sa...