I have a life-long friend. We've known each other since kindergarten. Always considered each other best friends back then and certainly consider ourselves very good friends now and I don't see that changing. However, there has always been an extreme undercurrent of competition b/w us. It is rarely talked about but I feel it, and I know he feels it. It involves everything too. Sports, women, careers, vacations, everything. Sometimes I think its petty and try to not think about it but it never truelly ends. A lot of times it leads to some friction but it hasn't made us hate each other or anything. I do feel it is kind of annoying and even sometimes inhibits us from having a good time together. Anyone else have someone in their life who they are fiercly competitive with? I'm not that way with any of my other friends. It probably goes back to having known each other growing up. I dunno