Let's all be honest here. We often compare ourselves to others. Men not so often, but women constantly compare themselves with their friends or with supermodels. We live in a comparing world. Always striving to look different, or to be like someone else.
Who decided what the perfect woman or man looks like? Do you realize how boring it would have been if we all looked the same, or did the same things, or even have the same interests?
People just have the tendency to be or look like someone else. They compare families, they compare looks, and they compare body parts. Well, basically we compare everything! We often look at the lives of others and think, what if I can do the same? Alternatively we look at someone and think...I never want to look like that, or I don't want to do what they are doing....is that not judging someone? The sad fact of the matter is that we all do it.
Who of you have ever looked at a picture of someone and thought....I wish I can look like that!
We all strive to perfection. We are never satisfied with what we have and we always try and change. I am not saying that trying to improve yourself is wrong, on the contrary....we have to better ourselves, and we have to strive towards better things, but to be like someone else is not a way of improving ourselves. If you try to be like someone else, how is that improvement? Individuality will be thrown out of the window, uniqueness will be kicked in the butt.
We should all just make peace with the fact that we were all born differently. Everybody is not equal, and everyone is in their own way an example to others.
To compare yourself to others is time consuming and it drains your energy!
Humans were not created equal. We have various colors, sizes, shapes, and even have different levels of intelligence. We are all UNIQUE.
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“Comparison is the death of joy.”
― Mark Twain
“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder
And the most important one for writers here on Steemit:
“Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. ”
― Brenda Ueland
Life is a process. Sometimes we are not happy, and difficult things cross our paths, but life is just life. Take it one day at a time and BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE FOR YOU! Be incomparable!!!
In the end, it does not matter if you were rich or poor, ugly or beautiful, fat or thin....we all go into the same grave.
@giantbearKEEP ON STEEMING!
