Every destination is reached by embarking on a journey.

To idolize the end result without acknowledging the enormous amount of effort and work is a futile and foolish habit.

That is exactly what comparison does, while simultaneously eating away at our ability to be content and confident.

When viewing someone life you must look at the whole picture. Life is not a pick and chooses buffet where you can eat only movie theater popcorn and not pay the exuberant price. Everyone’s lives have loss, sadness, pain, shortcomings, disappointments, or insecurities. And these things are what give color to the rest of our earthly experience.

It’s fairly easy to envy one aspect of another person’s life — his/her figure, talent, wealth, significant other, or intelligence. It’s much harder to examine and then envy a whole life — a complete aray of experiences.

When evaluating the entire events of your life and the entire life events of another you begin to see the realism creep in and the fiction dissolve.

Of course, there are imbalances. Some are more affluent while others are not, these discrepancies are what make us unique and are implemented with a purpose.

If you really want what others have let that inspire and propel you toward success not make you discouraged in your current lack of it.

It’s folly to covet the marathon winner’s medal if you’re not willing to run.