My sister says "Comparisons are odious." One thing social media has reinforced for me is how self-consciousness and insecurity are fed by constantly comparing ourselves to others.

You only get two things from that and both are bad:

1) A false sense of superiority, or

2) A false sense of inferiority.

There will always be someone better, and there will always be someone worse. Focus you yourself and do your best. The rest is noise.

Thanks for writing this. Good piece, as usual.