I hope you can give me some advise

First and foremost, I would like to apologise for not responding to those who left comment lately. Life has been very hectic, I only managed to do some auto-publish entries and did not actually accessed to my own blog as frequently as I want.

Now, I am blogging in the LRT on my way to work. I had a bad day yesterday and for the first time in nearly 3 years, I cried because of work.

I would appreciate your advise and need your opinion to tackle this one issue currently happening in my life.

Do you think I should give in to someone and put my career at risk just because that someone had just lost someone dear in his/her life. Do you think I should just let go off my current position without a fight just because of my sympathy towards him/her.

For those who have been a frequent reader of my blog would know about this particular individual who had been eyeing for my position as the right hand person of my boss. I have been holding this position for the past 3 years and so far from the feedback received, my performance have been excellent, Alhamdulilah. Last year, this position was craved by this particular individual and that person have been spreading stories saying that my boss offered him/her this position due to my poor performance. Upon hearing this, I confronted my boss and he denied this allegations.

And now, this thing re-surfaced. We are going through this job rotation thingy and we get to choose the new area that we would like to explore. Alhamdulilah, I got to venture something that I have been wanting to try.

Of course that individual quickly offered him/herself to fill in my position which was not even vacant in the first place. I hold 2 responsibilities as the right hand person for my boss and s/he is supposed to take just one of them but from the rate things are going looks like somebody is just greedy.

This person quickly did what I do even without any announcement that this rotation has taken effect. I am deeply hurt and my way of consoling myself is to tell me that at least I still have my loved ones around me but that is not really working.

My question to you, should I just let go of this fight just because I feel sorry for this person or should I fight till the last drop of blood in my body(dramatic kan?)

Please help!