Without Cometition #4

Without competition
In my life I am driven to excel in many different areas. I like to think of myself as a renaissance person even if I feel that that phrase is played out. The reason why I say I am of the medieval old school is because I adhere to those qualities. I play the guitar, bass guitar, piano, drums, violin, and I will sing if there is no one else around, I draw, paint, watercolor, carve, make things and more. That is not all that qualifies me as a renaissance person I read and write, cook, garden, grow vegetable, tend to the yard and house, search for truth, and I am so open minded that it makes me second guess myself on almost any topic.
The easiest way to excel at something is to know someone who is better at it then you, that is were the drive to become better comes from. I have a buddy Casey that is a killer Blues guitarist; he is now playing for the number one Stevie Ray Vaughn cover band in the nation. The band is Voodoo Blue and they are out of Dallas, they can be found at Voodooblue.net. Having a friend around that plays the blues made me want to write some blues songs just to prove to myself that I could, just to show him up, just to show him that I could. I even took one of his songs and kept the progression and chords but changed it around to make, what I felt like, was a better sounding song, a better flowing song. The cool thing was that he liked what I had done to his song and incorporated some of my ideas in to his song.
Without competition and the human desire to out due each other the world would be a far different place. As people we love to say that we are good at something, that we are better at something then someone else. Most of the time this is just fair competition but some people take it to far, some people are consumed with outdoing people and I think that the can become a unhealthy. I do not feel that I have mastered anything, there is not any one thing that I can say I am best at but just because your not great at something does not mean you can not be good at all kinds of things.
I do find myself for time to time wishing I could find a new hobby to delve into, a new challenge to apply myself to. It just seems so hard to figure out what I would be good at I guess that is also why I have yet to pick my major. I mean, I know what I like and what I like to do, but how do I apply it to a career, how do I apply that to the rest of my life.