We are all guilty of comparing ourselves to others. We forget that these same people are comparing themselves to us.

No one really knows what is going on in the life of another person, what they are going through or how they are feeling, what level of self-esteem or stress they have. We just see them from our perspective, from what they show us – their “act” you could say they perform for the world. We don’t see them at their lowest or how they perceive their world.

So before you compare yourself to someone else ask yourself: Do I know this person? Do I really know everything about them in order to make a good judgement call on this? Or would I be better just being myself?