Our everyday lives have a sense of competitive nature in them. We are expected to not only try our hardest in everything we do, but have an urge to be the best. We are all taught to want to reach the highest position in every activity. But does this competitve nature live in everyone, or is it only in people that live in a certain area?

If you take a trip down south, one of the first things you will realize is that everyone is

happy. It’s not only that people are happy, but they are happy for each other. Growing up in competitive Northern Virginia and occasionally going down south for vacations, I have grown to love the relaxed, low key nature that the south exhibits.

This does not go to say that down southern people are lazy, or that northern people are mean. Since we live in an area so close to DC with lots of amazing jobs near us, people are used to being competitve in their everyday lives. From football to getting the highest grade on a test, kids in this area want to beat the other person.

Like I mentioned before, down south it is not the same. It’s not that Southerners don’t want to win, it’s just that they aren’t mad if someone else does. This might be false and I could be totally wrong, but this is what I have observed on those many South Carolina and Tennessee road trips. Maybe it’s the cowboy boots and country music that cause people to let lose. Or it could be the government jobs and SAT’s that make

people tighten up. Whatever it is, you have control over what you want to do and how you want to act, but where you live could greatly impact these things.