3 Reasons Unhealthy Comparison is Disrespect To Your Own Journey and To The Other Person’s

In today’s era where every one is exposed to each other’s journey, lessons, and experiences, it’s easy to fall into comparison.

When we scroll across social feeds, we see content and we start to look at ourselves based on what others have posted. Yikes!

Here Are The Reason Why Comparison Is Disrespectful
1. You Disqualify Your Achievements When You Compare.

Every one of us has different sets of talents. Every one of us has different context in our lives. Even if three of your friends have the same skillset as you, you’re still different.

You have different ways in handling tasks. You have different ways of doing research. You process information in an unexpected way for them. See? Different.

The quality of your achievements are lessened because you measure it against another. You disqualify what you went through to achieve that by comparing it. Measuring it means the other person’s achievement is the standard---which isn’t at all.

2. You Constantly Long To Know Something--Which Distracts You From Focusing On Yours.

When you’re so used to comparing your life to a another person, you can’t stay put. You always want to know details about them and what they’re doing. It’s actually toxic.

You want an update about what they’re going through. Doing this frequently wastes your time. Focusing on your own process should be your priority. So that you can appreciate what you’ve achieved and how far you’ve come.

3. Comparison Shows Discredit To The Other Person’s Process.

It doesn’t just disqualify you. Whether we notice it or not, comparison shows we do not appreciate the other person’s experiences. That’s harsh but it’s true. If their journey is important to us, and if we understand that it’s different, we won’t be comparing, ever.

Why wouldn’t we? Well, because we respect the details, the struggles, the hardships. We’re super aware that there are context, talent, experiences in play---that contribute to every chapter of their journey. The same with ours.

Whenever you compare, this is what happens. You instantly assume there should be better between the two of you. And then your next move will be based on whoever won in your mind---when in the first place, there shouldn’t be.

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