Me constantly comparing myself and my journey to someone else’s made me less appreciative of my own.
I would get a bit bummed every time I saw someone’s life progressing quickly and my own journey felt like it was a moving turtle slow trying to go up a steep mountain. Happy marriages, new houses, new Jobs, Happy Relationships, Clean homes, fit bodies, happy families, clean desk, sales notifications, new business developments, to-do lists getting done, new goals been smashed, etc – I would log off unhappier than when I first logged on because I would compare what I saw to what I actually have in real life. I would beat myself up for not being as far as I think I should be based on me comparing someone’s glorified picture to my reality. I just could not understand how I could not have it – how I could not have what they had when I clearly deserved it too. Me constantly comparing myself and my journey to someone else’s made me less appreciative of my own. It made me less grateful for my accomplishments because it never felt like enough – it always felt like less than what I deserved or should have received. I started feeling like I wasn’t enough.