A Life full of Comparisons
Are your life choices a result of comparison?
There is hardly any time that we are giving for ourselves. It may sound silly but try to give it a thought. Most of the time we are busy thinking about the lives of people around us. We are busy comparing our lives to our friends, relatives, and colleagues.
We Compare All The Time
Let us talk about some of the daily life events to make you understand this hidden factor that has been dictating your life all throughout.
Take, for instance, the process you follow for buying a new mobile phone. There are some of us who take this decision after thorough research and understanding. But there is a section of people that will decide based on what phone others have. Which phone your colleague/friend/relative is using? We go for things like the price tag but not for the things which really matter like the comfort, budget, specs, etc.
Consider another case regarding career choices: A student is busy thinking that his friend has opted for example X as a career option, so even I should go for it. But we hardly give ourselves time to think and analyze our life that do we really want that type of career. Will I enjoy being in that profession? Will it give me happiness and satisfaction? We hardly care for such things in life. Even here we go for the…
