Once my husband just commented saying that I look like one of the ‘STAR’ (of course a celebrity) and I had a heartiest laugh, the reason because of the resemblance in the looks. He concluded that I am better because the former was not reachable for comparing the behavioral aspects etc. (Comparison) that even I often do with him and I believe lot of people in this world do. At the same time my daughter came to me with her book saying that she has received ‘3 STARS and an Excellent’ in her dictation (Grading). Generally when we talk about exams, competitions, sport (certain sports) these are the areas where one is graded based on certain pre-defined criteria.
Recently I heard a conversation of two people who were discussing about a competition in which one, even though he was the winner had queries saying the other competitor was better than him and started making lot of noise about it, maybe the other guy was his close friend. First of all on what basis did the person who was making the noise made that judgment mere comparison or did the person who made that statement was capable enough of judging based on all the given criteria of that competition?
If it was just the gut feeling based on which he was making these kind of statements or by mere comparisons then as per my judgment he was only being noisy, but if he had actually understood the entire competition right from the beginning then instead of being noisy he would have taken proactive measures. Now if I have to grade that person on my mere gut feelings or by comparison then I feel he is just being the victim of half knowledge. Competitions always have winners and non-winners, winning make us more content, happy, gives us feeling of success whereas non-winning makes us think more and do more in order to succeed. Participation in any competition also allows one to know where he/she stands in that field; it is not just winning or non-winning.
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