Desiderata by Max Ehrmann that states, “If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”A great therapist once told me, “You cannot compare your insides to a person’s outsides.”When I started comparing myself to my friends, nobody won.
I monetized their lives. I looked at the checklist of societal success and decided their jobs, houses, and partners made them a success.
I was taking their lives at face value, and in doing so, I lost sight of them completely and lost myself in the process.The truth is, the societal checklist is designed to make us all feel like failures.
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