Life is full of competitions. When we are at school, we always want to be the most excellent student and win teachers’ praise. When we work, we not only need to compete with our co-workers, but also need to beat other companies for more profit. The rivals are everywhere, which help us to be stronger.
When we are competing with rivals, we are gaining knowledge. To be the winner, we will have the motivation to improve ourselves, as so to have advantages over others. The lack of competitors is not good for people, because the comfortable situation will easy make us to loss motivation to move on.
The good rival also can be our friend. In the processing of competition, both of you get improved. For example, in the debate competition, when two side are in the opposite opinion and both defend for their ideas, it is easy involving personal emotion. If the rival breaks the awkward situation with smile and humor, showing that this is a nice talk, then you won’t lose your temper. This is learning.
Anyway, we should be grateful to our rivals, because we need to make progress all the time, or we will be kicked out.
翻译：
生活充满了竞争。我们在学校的时候，我们总是想成为最优秀的学生，赢得老师的表扬。我们工作的时候，不仅需要与同事竞争，同时为了获得更多的利润也需要击败其他公司。处处都是竞争对手，他们使我们变得更强大。
我们与对手竞争的同时，我们也收获了知识。为了成为冠军，我们有了动力去提升自己，这样才会比他人更有优势。缺乏竞争者对人们并无益处，因为舒适的环境很容易使我们失去前进的动力。
良好的竞争对手也可以成为我们的朋友。在竞争过程中，双方都得到了进步。例如，在辩论比赛中，当双方意见不统一时，都在捍卫自己的观点，就很容易涉及到个人的情感。如果竞争对手用微笑和幽默打破这尴尬的局面，表示这是一个友好的谈话，这样你就不会发脾气了。这也是学习。
不管怎样，我们应该感激我们的竞争对手，因为我们需要一直在进步，不然就会被淘汰。
