[Wombat77]

Just throwing a few ideas around here - trying to understand an aspect of myself.

I am much more an academic and dont really relate to people who are very competetive. I like going to the gym, but find very competetive people embarrassing as they scream and punch the air...its like dealing with kids.....its case of "run along and play and go dig a ditch or something productive to harness all that loud and overtly raw agressive competetive energy.........go away...."

Living in Australia, sport is a religion, and I just dont care about sports. I dont mind playing sport but really dont get the competition thing. Its got to the point whereby I wonder if I'm normal ( I am normal, the competetive thing just irks me...)

Just wondering if other people have a low tolerance to this too?

Sometimes I wonder if I've missed the point of life - that were supposed to be competive and for some reason I dont have that drive? I dunno.....

Socially I have limited tolerance for people who talk a lot, and when they get on to sport i want to just go and find something productive to do, like weed the garden, or make something ...anything but brain dead sport chat.....save me.....how about talking about the fact the electricty grid is being sabotaged by the powers that be, or the likelyhood of war with NK, or how to handle uncontrolled immigration, or the reality that most "news" is heavily manufactured etc etc

Thoughts welcome.....

[Astrada]

I love sport, but lol, overly aggressive loud people aggravate me in general. Everyone has things that irritate them in some way, we are all different, and it's ok. My sister is very competitive in everything she does and it is sooo annoying, especially being my sister. And yes, you are normal (whatever normal is). Cheers from Australia, take care.

[FallDuskTrain]

I am not a competitive person. I strongly dislike competition. I have to deal with the competitive culture of the corporate world and that is already beyond exhausting. I have no desire for any other competitive environment.
I do crossfit and luckily my current crossfit gym is not competitive at all. But my former crossfit gym was annoyingly competitive.
I compete with myself, a lot and that is the only competition I care to focus on.

[reb569]

Same here! I am really bothered by over competitive people or loud people. I tend to just remove myself from the situation when this happens.

[Quarter life]

I too am Australian and detest the fact that somehow we became this competitive sports driven culture. My biggest grievance is that not only does competitive team sport attract hundreds of millions of corporate dollars...but a sizeable chunk of our hard earned tax dollars goes toward building state of the art stadiums for them to show off in...even though our public hospitals & public schools are crumbling. This makes me so sad & ashamed.

[possum220]

Maybe time to find another Gym if these annoying people are bothering you. Aggravating people live on all the continents of the world. There is life after footy.... there is cricket. Sorry couldn't restrain myself.

Personally I have never been to a footy match and watching cricket is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Socially people who talk incessantly make me tune out. Are we supposed to be that competitive? Me thinks not.

Maybe time to seek out friends that have interests more a tune to yours.

[MickeyCheeky]

I think it's perfectly normal for you to feel this way - you don't like sports, and there's nothing wrong with that. Perhaps you can make friends based on your other interests.

[Sunflower123]

I am not competitive and dislike competitive behavior in others. It’s ok not to care about sports...you’re an academic like you said. You are normal and there are probably lots of people like you.