What's So Bad About Being So-So Analysis

Lisa Wilson Strick’s article “What’s So Bad about Being So-So?” states that, in today’s society, people are too serious to the point that no one does things just for fun, but only for competition. There are children who are acting like grown adults instead of children because they are so stressed out about being the best in everything that they do. Friendships are being ruined because no one is safe from today’s competitive edge. Strick’s article tries to instill the thought that we need to go back to the era when people did things just for fun, not because they wanted to be the best, but just for the experience. “But in today’s competitive world we have to be ‘experts’- even in our hobbies,” (para.4). Competitive thinking is ruining fun
They wanted to play the game for fun and camaraderie, not to “slaughter the other team,” (para.7). Nowadays, every kid has been taught that you must be the best and it has made them into little machines. When I was a young child, my father always told me that knowledge is power and that I needed to always strive for greatness. This turned me into a competitive thinker, always looking for ways to be the greatest at everything I pursued. But it also made me socially awkward because I did not know how to make friends. I just wanted to be the best, friends or not. Strick’s son was picked on by other children for not being excellent at soccer. Strick states, “I overheard a ten-year old boy sneer the other day, ‘He doesn’t know a goal kick from a head shot,” (para.7). This bullying should not be part of everyday life, but sadly this is not the case. Bullying is becoming more prevalent in the younger generation than ever before and this is because we are teaching our children to judge based on the skill of a person rather than their personality and character. Competition seems to invade even the most simplest of tasks in today’s