Working All Day

In the rapid pace of this highly competitive world, working for a fixed amount of time is soon vanishing out. Every where you turn around you could see people working all the time, round the clock, just to emerge better than others. Their very own species.

Starting from school, where you see students, having sleepless night , having tuition's, coaching classes and stuff just to beat their own friends. Just to score few extra marks than others. Then they move on to college, where again only people who put extra effort, emerge better out of the rest. Then they either get into higher studies or get a job.

Again be it a working professional or a person pursuing their PG, have to work hard. just to get better pay hikes, perks and score few extra marks than their colleagues and friends. This competition is severe every where we turn around.

People do suggest us to do smart work than hard work. But you cant beat hard work with your smart work. One day or the other, the hard working guy will have the edge over the smart worker.

I'm not here to blame the concept of this competitive world. Of course this competition is what making us better. Its the only way for improvement. Else the world would be stagnant everywhere, and surely will lead to the end of humans.

I'm simply stun by the pace at which this competition is growing. I guess if this continuous at this rate. Then, man would be highly evolved one day that, he will beat supercomputers, he will beat gigantic machines. Then there wont be any question of machines taking over humans. But its the great pace of technological developments that has caused various sci-fi writers to feel that machines could take over humans one day.

I do not have any proof for my belief. Its just the feeling that i have. I'm wondering where this is heading, and how many generations will this take, so that its effects could be felt.