Forget the Joneses: Live Your Own Life

I truly think the greatest thief in life is the act of comparison.

It’s not good, people.

Jealousy is comparison’s ugliest aspect and something that people have overly discounted and undermined in its impact when it comes to one’s progress, satisfaction, contentment, and simple joy in daily life.

I am really grateful and oddly very unfazed by what’s happening on (supposed) greener pastures.

I’m very much content weeding and working on my own lawn, and that’s something I don’t know if I inherited or have intrinsically worked on.

I can count on one hand the number of times I have truly been jealous of someone else, and it’s always shocked me. I’ve reflected deeply and learned to understand where this character-corroding concept came from, and I’ve grown from it.

I have felt the wrath of jealousy, and it sucks.

You lose friends, family, and colleagues; situations that should be fun and joyful become competitive, menacing minefields filled with fake friends and false truths, and people committed to dimming your shine.

It’s hard, and it sucks, but you gotta stop paying attention to what other people are doing and focus on your situation fully and completely.