Why are you constantly comparing yourself to others?

Why are you constantly comparing yourself to others?
"In a perfect world, everyone would rejoice with their soul for the joys and successes of others."

But usually in the real world this is not the case. People constantly look at what our neighbor does, what he has and not who we are and what we have achieved.
We need to understand that each of us has our own value and has a different starting point from the rest of the people. This means a different path, choices, luck, circumstances. So everyone plays on different tracks and it's pointless to compare to something that we haven't chosen. We may be jealous of a friend's career but we remain unwilling to sacrifice time, money and personal life for such an achievement. You understand that it is useless to compare ourselves to things that we ultimately did not choose to achieve.

It is good to understand that comparing ourselves to others makes us unhappy and insecure. The only constructive comparison is of our present self with our yesterday self.
What we can do is see what we want to achieve, set realistic goals and move towards their realization. This requires us to put our imaginations to work, plan the next steps and start today.

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