How come people are always thriving to be the best, even though we know there people less fortunate than us?

Question

How come, in life, people are always thriving to be the biggest and the best, even though we know there people less fortunate than us barely able to live?

Answer 1

True thriving to be the best, is helping others who are less fortunate than us.

Answer 2

The word you want is "striving", not "thriving", which means something completely different.

Another way of asking your question is, why are people always trying to be better than others? Why are people continually in competition with each other?

We have available to us a river of life energy. And the reality is that most of us end up with not a river but a narrow and very inadequate stream.

This is because from the moment of our conception, it was the situation for the people around us that we depended upon. There was not enough love in them, and so we had to compete for love with others. Furthermore, they (the people we depended upon for love) made getting virtually any love at all conditional upon our becoming like them. That is, they demanded of us that we cut ourselves off from the abundant flow of life's energy and narrow that river down to a little stream, so as not to be threatening to them.

Result is, that we live in constant competition with others for what we perceive to be the very limited amount of love available. And that causes us to hog all the "stuff", because we believe that we need it in order to win the love of others.

Result is also that we become very bitter about this. In our bitterness we become very self-centered. We become indifferent to the suffering of others, because, first, everyone else is guilting of hurting us, and second, we have to spend the little energy we have looking out for number one.

Answer 3

Perhaps they don't think that they are responsible for the other's misfortunes. Hey, it's their lives.

The desire to be the best had always been a human characteristic. Without this competitiveness and desire, we would still be hunting and gathering.

Answer 4

we don't think about others, we care only for our own selves, unfortunately... how about this, if we are always striving to be the best, how come we are so insignificant? we obviously have limits, but if we are in constant competition to be better than the next shouldn't we all be glorious beyond belief

Answer 5

because we dont want life to be as rare as water is to an Ethiopian to us.