Competition, survival, and polarity

[Black Dragon]

It seems like some of these responses are in part directed towards me.

I'm going to be transparent and say that in my case, if I have to choose between complete acceptance of everything or admitting defeat to the world (including my parents, which I won't go into) after everything I've experienced, I will absolutely choose to control my situation regardless of the cost to positive polarity. My own situation and drives aren't motivated by shiny things. This issue may be temporal, a blip on a cosmic scale, but since we're all going to make it back at some point in eternity anyways, I'm setting my own terms for this lifetime. They're non-negotiable.

There may be a false equivalency with worldly failure and positive polarity, which is what I'm contemplating on a personal level. They don't have to go hand in hand.

I'm wrestling with the nuances of that and all the grey area in between, but nobody has to try to 'convert' me to anything. All paths lead back to the Creator, and all serve the Creator. Whatever I do personally is of my free will, and this is something I'm weighing heavily.

That said, this thread isn't about my personal issues. The topic is something I'm contemplating partially because that gray area does play into my own life, but I still want to discuss the mechanisms of competition and polarity in general... Whether somebody can truly live in a competitive state and polarize positively, how that could be managed, and whether or not it has to be difficult.

I think the best answer is there's no one-size-fits-all answer to this question and each individual situation will have to be discerned on an individual basis. Nobody is just going to find a perfect philosophy on life that makes every decision as easy as cutting out a cookie with a cutter. The definition of a "competitive state" is what's at play here mostly. Athletes for example can live in a competitive state and strive to win all the time, yet respect their opponents. There's somewhat of an agreement on all parties taking part in a competitive venture like a sport that there will be times when you win, and times when you lose. That's called good sportsmanship, and in a case like that, striving to win doesn't make you lose polarity.

To some extent when we do anything that makes money in a capitalist system, there's an element that's competitive by its very nature. Here again, we can have people striving to win and to flourish while being ethical. Like I said before, in most cases if one just does their best to get ahead and lets the chips fall without trying to(or knowingly) screwing somebody, there is no loss of polarity. Some institutions and companies have a willfully toxic and STS environment that disregards ethics and principles, and have no qualms about screwing people to meet their goals. This is where discernment comes in. Nobody's forcing anybody to stay in that sort of environment and knowingly participate.

As for choosing your own terms and setting your own boundaries in this life, even if sometimes it involves controlling circumstances rather than blind acceptance...I can't say I'm not guilty of the exact same thing, and to a large extent I agree with that premise. 4d positive beings engaging in combat is a good example that in some situations this is necessary. They lose polarity to an extent, but if nobody was doing this, STS would just completely dominate and extinguish all the positive potential from 3d reality. Likewise, there's individual situations in 3d life where things just can't be blindly accepted. "sometimes, when push comes to shove, shove must push back." This is something Q'uo themselves have said.