We can all do better!
We all know that we aren’t the best versions of ourselves. But how do we know that? Most of us believe that comparison is a bad thing, but then how do we know that we can do better?
Or maybe we are the best we can be, but wouldn’t that be being over-confident? Or maybe then being over-confident might be a good thing? At least you’ll have this eternal insanely optimistic feeling. The thing is whatever we do, we have to be happy about it. We have to make a picture and watch ourself fit into it.
Now, once my mom made me go to this wedding in which my cousins were coming, and then they had this function, where all of them performed something or the other, and I was sitting there, searching for things that I could’ve done, and pointing out faults In them, and I always had this feeling coming from inside of me that, if I had learnt this, I could’ve done way better. I wasn’t there criticizing them, I genuinely appreciated that they did what they did but when we came back , I decided to do something with my life, something other than what I was already doing.
This didn’t actually happen though, but what I wanted y’all to notice is that,
‘ When we meet an acquaintance of ours doing better that what we’re doing, we wish to incorporate that thing is our lives, seeing others doing better than us is a force that drives us insanely.’
So doesn’t it actually mean that comparison is good? Maybe it is. But then we also see the comparison people do, between you and the legendary ‘Sharma ji’s son?’ Is that good too? Well I don’t think so. So wouldn’t it be write to say that only self-comparison is good? That sounds almost right.
When we feel that we can do better, miracles happen. An acquaintance of mine once quoted,
“ if I ain’t contended with myself,
How do I live a life of satisfaction?
If I don’t look at the achievements of others,
How do I improve myself?
How do I compete with the world?
If the world, it-self teaches me not to compare.
How do I know that I ain’t the best version of my-self
If I don’t compare ?”
So, do you want to stay happy but small or do you want to grow? Obviously most of us love just exactly how we are.
“That’s the thing, when we love something (be it us, or any work that we’ve done) , we get too blind to whatever is wrong with it.”
Life is too short for staying right where we are, but the saying this also contradicts another theory that others believe, which is about being satisfied with what we have. Maybe ‘greed is good too.’ I don’t see anything wrong in knowing that we aren’t enough. We just have to be open to accepting changes.
So, get a life for yourself, where the hustle never ends.
We all know that we aren’t the best versions of ourselves. But how do we know that? Most of us believe that comparison is a bad thing, but then how do we know that we can do better?
Or maybe we are the best we can be, but wouldn’t that be being over-confident? Or maybe then being over-confident might be a good thing? At least you’ll have this eternal insanely optimistic feeling. The thing is whatever we do, we have to be happy about it. We have to make a picture and watch ourself fit into it.
Now, once my mom made me go to this wedding in which my cousins were coming, and then they had this function, where all of them performed something or the other, and I was sitting there, searching for things that I could’ve done, and pointing out faults In them, and I always had this feeling coming from inside of me that, if I had learnt this, I could’ve done way better. I wasn’t there criticizing them, I genuinely appreciated that they did what they did but when we came back , I decided to do something with my life, something other than what I was already doing.
This didn’t actually happen though, but what I wanted y’all to notice is that,
‘ When we meet an acquaintance of ours doing better that what we’re doing, we wish to incorporate that thing is our lives, seeing others doing better than us is a force that drives us insanely.’
So doesn’t it actually mean that comparison is good? Maybe it is. But then we also see the comparison people do, between you and the legendary ‘Sharma ji’s son?’ Is that good too? Well I don’t think so. So wouldn’t it be write to say that only self-comparison is good? That sounds almost right.
When we feel that we can do better, miracles happen. An acquaintance of mine once quoted,
“ if I ain’t contended with myself,
How do I live a life of satisfaction?
If I don’t look at the achievements of others,
How do I improve myself?
How do I compete with the world?
If the world, it-self teaches me not to compare.
How do I know that I ain’t the best version of my-self
If I don’t compare ?”
So, do you want to stay happy but small or do you want to grow? Obviously most of us love just exactly how we are.
“That’s the thing, when we love something (be it us, or any work that we’ve done) , we get too blind to whatever is wrong with it.”
Life is too short for staying right where we are, but the saying this also contradicts another theory that others believe, which is about being satisfied with what we have. Maybe ‘greed is good too.’ I don’t see anything wrong in knowing that we aren’t enough. We just have to be open to accepting changes.
So, get a life for yourself, where the hustle never ends.
