If we gauge others external displays as a basis for our internal expectations then we will always pull the short straw. With all of the Housewives, Love and whatever, etc. many people are putting their lives on display to show how great they have it and how much better their lives are. The travel to exotic places, get invited to the best parties, and get tons of free expensive stuff. All in the name of “celebrity”. Yet is all the glitter gold or fool’s gold?
Are their lives really so much better than ours?
Is the life they lead really the life that we want?
For some the answer is yes. For others the answer is I do not know but some of their money would help me out a great deal.
With others’ lives comes others problems. Our problems are the ones that we can handle. Are we really prepared to handle someone else’s?
The greener grass may be artificial turf covering up swampland. You never truly know what is going on in your neighbor’s house and many times, you really do not want to.
The falsehood of comparing ones’ life to that of another is an act of crazed futility. There will always be someone better, smarter, faster, richer but when you compare yourself to your former self now that is a comparison that is rooted in growth and promise.
When you compare who you are now to who you were then, are you a better version of you? If no, then why not?
Where you so busy comparing yourself to the outside world, you have failed to do what was necessary to improve you. When you focus on what you need to do be a better you, to get yourself in a better situation, then you become “The Jones”. You become that which you aspire to be and obtain the things that you have always desired. Then you can truly look at yourself and say I am having a fantastic life instead of falsely believing that everyone else around you is.
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