As I have shared before, we were one of those families before that had enough money only for sustaining our daily needs. I can clearly remember how I felt like while I am seeing my cousins eating delicious food in one request from their parents. I can't count how many times I had wish to be in their place. That was when I was younger.
I thought when I grow up, I will care less on other's plate but I was wrong. There were still times where I would wish that I was born wealthy who can get her own car, branded bags and her own house.
I guess being insecure is what I'm best on doing, before. When I see people at my age being a lot advanced in life, I would think of "I wish" and "What ifs". But as I experienced life and reality, I came to realized that a simple achievement is still an achievement. And their success was not made overnight. We have to learn that those who are living comfortably are not always on top. There were also times in their lives where they have to struggle to reach wherever they are in life now. When you open your eyes to reality, you will start to focus on your own game. I always reminded my self to never compare a 30 years old achievement to my progress. For they have also encountered sleepless nights to achieve whereever they are at the moment. So let's be happy to those who post their success online, may it be through gadgets or promotion, for it is their way of being proud to the fruit of their hardwork. If we take our insecurities to challenge, then we will be more eager to win the game.
I have been confinded by a colleague of my mine, wherein at his age he felt that he was left behind. I do felt that way before but I came to realize that someones success corresponds to their own failure and struggle. So when I got asked by this colleague of mine how am I not feeling envy with people who can travel and buy the things they want, just like what he felt, I told him to never compare his steps to other. May it be a individual his age or younger even older. All of us struggles to be where we at right now. At our own phase, we will get there. Keep moving forward.
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True never compare yourself to others because it blocks you to be able to achieve what they had. For you to have that you should be a great thinker and not a envious one. It's common for us to be envious of someone but it's better to transform your envious into motivation so that you will be able to achieve what they had now.