Is it okay to compare yourself to others?
Well, it's up to us if we are comfortable of handling the situation when we are comparing our self to others. But! In this kind of situation where most youth/teenager are struggling to depression, bitterness, judgement and etc. that will cause suicide, someone must stand up and shout out to tell teenager not to focus in self comparison and jokes that hurts sometimes. We must be aware that comparing our self to others is not too important in life.
According to the Desiderata, " Do not compare yourself to others, you may become bitter or vain " comparing yourself might be bad or an evil thing in this generation. Most when we compare our self to others, we focus more in things that makes us depress that lead to judement and to bitterness. 70% Physical judgement 30% Complimentation, Complimenting is often when it comes to comparison, thats why It leads to judgement and to depression. Sometimes we feel bad when someone compare things that we don't have. Depression is now an issue worldwide, due to social media connection, it's now easy compare our self to others. This is one of the reason why depression is spreading, we can easily access to social media and see what other people have that we dont have at all, this thing makes us envy and feel like not contempted to what we have. This is what comaparing our self to others effect our mental and physical condition.
Comparing our self to others is not a requirement in life. This is just for small minded people who focus more in material and self pride. We must neglect these things and focus more in good things that help our self nurture and build our characteristics better. When we compare our self to others, don't take it too serious and too important, just treat it as a time for your friend to talk, and do not give too much time talking about things that you dont have. Remember that if we dont have things that other people have, we should never forget that might we have other things that other people do not have too, not in material but in spiritual and happiness.
For me Its not okay to compare our self to others, and it depends on how we handle the situation of comparing our self.
DO NOT FOCUS ON EMOTION, INSTEAD FOCUS ON SELF'S COMPLIMENTATION....