How to Stop Comparing Your Life to Everyone Else’s
How to Stop Comparing Your Life to Everyone Else’s There are moments when you can be perfectly content with your life until you see someone else’s. You might wake up feeling peaceful about where you are, make your morning tea, finish your work, and think, “Life is okay.” Then you open your phone. Someone you know has moved abroad. Someone has announced a promotion. Someone is getting married. Someone has started a business. Someone who seemed just as confused as you are now appears incredibly successful. Within a few minutes, the quiet satisfaction you had with your own life has disappeared, replaced by a question you didn't ask five minutes ago: “Why am I not there yet?” This is the strange cruelty of comparison. It doesn't always begin with dissatisfaction. Sometimes it creates dissatisfaction where there was none. You start looking at another person's life and unconsciously turn it into a measurement of your own. Their progress becomes evidence of your delay. Their ...