THE LAST PERFORMANCE

Children are often seen as pure and innocent beings. Yet I clearly remember an incident from my own school days: a simple school play triggered conflicts among classmates—an episode whose heavy consequences I have never forgotten. Years later, when a young girl told me about tensions among her friends after a film crew visited their school, it brought that memory rushing back. I realized that children remain innocent only until they step into the inevitable cycle of competition.
Looking at larger social structures of power and decision-making, I see a similar pattern: if we could somehow remove the element of competition, perhaps people, too, would resemble those untainted children. It is this unavoidable race for status and position that often distances us from the true essence of our humanity.
So the question remains: how can we tame this relentless cycle of rivalry? By limiting power? Or by returning to the original, uncorrupted nature of human beings?