Out of competition!!

In the pursuit of success and the making of a career, we learn something vital to our survival, something that becomes unconsciously integrated in our system and pattern; if you don't run as fast as you can, you probably won't get as much as you deserve..There is no time, no time to wait for a colleague to catch up, no time to do something outside your to do list, no time to pay forward something that won't return the favor, because we are in a RACE!! We are racing against a fierce competition, so standing for a moment to listen to your friend's applauses seems unaffordable, slowing down your pace for your family to be able to see you would waste your time, and stopping around the turns for an important conversation would definitely ruin your chances of success. And if that happens, if that happens, we would be so furious about the reasons that throttled our success and curse the incompetence of those who couldn't keep with our pace and hence lost us the race..A race that is so important to who we are because we are racing after the carrots that we deserve. But what we really need to learn in the process is to stop every once in a while and question if the carrots are really what we need?!! Because in the end, when we lose, we don't lose the carrots, we lose everything we thought the carrots meant to us...But then we would be out of competition, out of time!!