No Such Thing As A Life That's Better Than Yours

For avid listeners of hip-hop from American rappers, the title of this article might seem all too familiar. Like "Yes, I've heard this somewhere". And rightly so.

The phrase "No such thing as a life that's better than yours" is significant to a song titled "Love Yourz", released in 2014 by ace Dreamville rapper, Jermaine Cole (professionally known as J. Cole). However, I just want to draw reference to it because of how significant the phrase is and why more people should know it.

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It sounds cliché to say, but with the advancement of technology, the world is a global village. You can converse and see beautiful places and people thousands of miles away from you —a marvelous thing in it's own right; but yet a marvelous thing that can effortlessly make you sad in a way if you're easily swayed by what you see.

Understand me, it's not bad to wish things for yourself based on what you see online or even in your immediate surroundings. But when those wishes start leading you to think that you're not good enough or that your life is trash or causes you to wish for another life entirely, then its harmful.

Sadly the explosion of social media eg. Instagram, has greatly added to this occurrence (not that I have any hatred towards the social media giant). People no longer share pictures if they think there's an iota of perceived fault in it. If it's not "perfect", they don't post — thus the proliferation of the use of filters in an image to hide little flaws just so that the picture may be "perfect" and they may look like who they admire online (who might not even have things going for them as good as they project on their social media spaces).

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No such thing as a life that's better than yours... You have a whole lot of good stuff in your life that if you shut out the harmful wishes for even a minute, you'll see it all — the blessing of waking up daily, the love of your family and close friends, the absence of disaster in your surroundings, the joy of life itself and the convenience of simplicity etc.