Hidden Rivalry
2009
I was sitting with an old friend the other day, and she described something her friend observed in his conversation with her the day before. He said, “You ever notice that you’re always trying to get one up on me in our conversations?” “What do you mean” she replied. “I say something about some topic, doesn’t matter and you immediately disagree, or add something that shows you know more,” said her friend.
To my friend’s credit she didn’t follow the pattern her friend was describing at that moment, and actually sat with his observation for a while. “He’s right,” she told me, “and I told him so.”
I recognize this in myself as well as many people around me. It’s as if people use their


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