More than will. It's Obsession.

Our lifestyle is being raced with competition. The get-up-and-go nature is expected in all of us from the time we learn that the world doesn’t revolve around us, if we ever do that is. It has always been there and it will always drive us to touch that insane mark known as perfect. Forms of competition have changed although the alphabets of winning remain the same.

The drive to top the class in school years came, for most of us by our parents. The raison d'être was that excelling would open all doors for our future where we all knew the explanation had double motives, after all the neighbor’s son/daughter could not simply stand ahead you. No judgment there because after all we are because of what are parents molded us to become, the case for many of us I would say.
We now reach college where competition has become so intense that literally the golden key to our future’s doors lies with the examination results. For those who choose to take it the serious way are the ones that are driven by sheer competition. For those who don’t, well their bank balance in the coming years in comparison to the other lot would say it all. Again, no judgment there.

We compete with our classmates, our friends, our acquaintances throughout, to get the better grades, to take hold of any and all opportunities, to find the better job, to appear to be the complete person. The only difference is that now it’s not about being better but about beating the rest to be the best.

In fact competition is taking speed in such a way that the term ‘healthy competition’ has become almost ironic. Jealousy, comparison, anger, and frustration all drive us into competing with whoever it is and beating them. We all want it all.
When our bubble bursts and we step into the world, we realize that any means, and literally any means to be the best is what matters at then end. Even if you are where you are because of your family background, your toll at bribery, your hard work or luck, at the end of it all who has the time to care how you got there?

For those who choose to accept this bitter truth are considered the ones to have that obsession to win and those who do not…well, you know that at the end you want it all.