This post is going to be about comparison. Theodore Roosevelt once said "comparison is the thief of joy"To me, this means that you can never truly be happy whilst comparing yourself to others. This might mean comparison in terms of appearance, life,work-anything really. When you compare yourself to others, it tends to be your flaws against their positive attributes.
In this society, we all have a tendency to compare ourselves to our peers. But why? Why do we feel that a valid comparison can be made out of two completely different and distinctive people? Its because we categorise certain people of being perfect and something to aspire to, and whilst doing this we overlook our own perfections.
Carrie hope fletcher wrote a line in her letter to my 16 year old self (which you can see here) that struck a chord with me. She wrote in her blog:
You’re not them and they’re not you
and holy crap that’s nice
so stop comparing, start self caring
This is so relevant to todays teenager. We all compare ourselves to other people and care so much about trying to be like them that we forget to care about ourselves. You are not the other person and that is a GOOD thing. I can't stress enough how nice it is that you are yourself and that no two people are the same.
This week I am going to try not to compare myself to other people and actually take time to care about myself.
Amani xx
