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You Are Just as Valuable as Anyone Else
I’m going to go out on a limb and make the assumption that everyone at some point or another felt inadequate or even invisible.
The reason for this is because one’s ego is compelled to compare oneself with another. You see someone and judge that they have a better body or they have more money or they’re more liked by one’s peers or they have something unique that one lacks.
But this tendency to compare also “benefits” one when one sees that they have more free time or easier access to certain things or more sex or a nicer home.
“Benefits” is in quotation marks because it only feels like a good thing when you’re the one who has more, but it is this same game that will eventually make you feel like a loser when you find yourself with less than someone else.
And maybe this wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t then make the direr mistake of making these comparisons and having that define who we are and how we feel about ourselves.
I remember when Meghan Markle had just become a duchess and so many women were jealous of her newfound position and being the first black person to be a part of the British royal family. Of course, some celebrated her with no jealousy whatsoever. But some were at the very least envious.
