In a dream I had recently I was riding a bicycle through an area I didn't know or recognise. I wasn't with anyone else but I was riding the bicycle through areas with other people around, none of whom I knew. At one point I was riding through a park, there were people in the park walking around, sitting on benches and children were playing. I continued on to a gravel pathway which led to a more rural scene and the path went up a small hill and down the other side. I decided that it would be the right amount of exercise for the day if I rode up the gentle slope to the top of the hill and down the other side. At that point I would stop riding and go home. As I started to ride up the hill a man appeared from the side of the path who watched me ride past. No sooner had I gone past him he grabbed his bicycle, jumped on and chased after me with great speed. It soon became apparent that he was racing me to the top of the hill, even though I didn't know who he was, and that there was no need to race.
I certainly was not interested in racing him and continued at the same pace up and over the hill as I planned. I don't recall who got to the top of the hill first, and it does not really matter anyway. When I woke up I reflected on the dream.... It felt like it was showing me how, as men, we can go into competition with other men automatically, and even in the most unusual circumstances, or for the strangest reasons. The truth is that we don't need to compete with each other at all; the man in my dream did not need to compete with me for any reason at all - yet he felt the need to and acted on it. As Mr Spock from Star Trek would say "Highly illogical". So, let's be mindful as men to not compete with others, there is no need to prove you are better at anything, or to use the competition as a means of putting someone else down.
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