Why do we tend to compare ourselves with others around us?

If you want to compare yourself with others, make sure you compare against those who will make you look big. LOL. Why compare yourself against someone? In my opinion, you may envy someone, rejoice at someone's success, but this is different from comparing yourself with someone. If you can compare yourself to him, he must have certain qualities that attract you. Maybe it is better if you can take the person as an idol and motivate yourself to advance further.

guess everyone doesn't like being compared to another person. i sometimes get that, especially from my family. if that person is much better than i am (which is the case almost every time), i try to change myself for the better although sometimes i just can't do it. .

It's actually a very common human nature to compare with others. I do that all the time, every single day, hour, minute and seconds, especially since I'm in Sales line. When compare with those with better accomplishment, it will make me strive to be better. When compare with those that are not so good, it make me be thankful for being better. But at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter, you are you, no matter what.

just to make ourselves better, sometimes we try to check if we look good if we see that the people around us are really looking so good it makes you feel small but if you feel that you look better than most of the people around you, you feel good

Since we sometimes compare ourselves with others, it will be a drive for us to work hard and have a bigger ambition. It is a drive for us to make a progress.

Sometimes we usually tend to compare ourselves with others, especially our batch mates and we know they dont deserve it or we are just sour graping but I always remind myself not to compare myself with them since there would always be somebody greater than me and somebody worst than me to compare myself is to create an awful pain to myself, so I dont self-inflict myself anymore as long as I continue to achieve and excel and be the best that I can be I must live a life that would make me a model to somebody

same here to the point that i dont appreciate myself and i lost my self confidence... but God made me realize through other people that i am unique from others!there is no use comparing myself to other coz there is no way that i will be like them or they will be like me! everybody is unique!

yes i do compare myself to other people. sometimes it has a negative effect on me but it also has some positive effects too. for instance, in my class when i see that my classmates have higher scores than me i would feel inferior but this would also encourage me to study more. =)

i think it is a human tendency and each one of us go through this comparison. We always feel the other person around us is more happy and gifted than we are. The grass on the other side of the fence always seems to be greener. But that will always not be the case. The other person, in fact might be much more sad than we are.

I actually don't compare myself to others. Maybe its because of my upbringing also wherein I was taught to be by myself. I know that comparing oneself from others could make one feel lacking somehow because there would always be people who are better than us. I just focus my attention of achieving my goals in life and in being happy with what I have. I find that it is not stressful that way.

I have learned that as soon as I start making such comparisons, I star thinking about what God says about me in the Bible. He makes each of us individully to be special with our own unique talents and abilities because we all have certain unique qualities that the world needs. The key is to appreciate who we are as God has created us to be and not focus on what someone else is. I used to want to be an entertainer and be on stage and travel all over the world performing but that didn't happen and I'm actually glad it didn't because that would have meant giving up my privacy and constantly being away from home and I wouldn't like that. I'm much too much a loner and a home body. I love to travel but I don't want to have to travel constantly.

It's a normal feeling actually pal. We really cannot get away with this kind of frustrations sometimes. Somehow, I always look on the brighter side of life. That I am more blessed and I may not have accomplished a lot or get everything that I want, I'm still thankful to God because He's giving me the kind of blessings that I deserved to have. ;) Cheer up friend. You're not alone in this world. ;)

i think it is normal for us to compare ourselves with the people around us. however, it should not be done to make us feel inferior. otherwise, we would just end up hurt. i believe that it should be done to somehow help us boost our confidence and help us become better person.

This means you are a positive person, if one pair of close flout they do not care, it does not have psychological, he is certainly not one who likes competing, but sometimes do not like competing on the mean social exclusion, sometimes, some of the psychological positive. As long as it can become jealous.

I would say it's human nature to compare ourselves to others..usually since we have our eyes where we are ..we see better what is in front of us then what is in us..If we take time, however; to really think of it.. We will know comparing really is not accurate..No two people are alike..Just as no 2 person share the same finger print no two people can share the same qualities.. Usually we are not aware of our own goodness..but we are all gifted and unique.

Yeah, It's a normal feeling...but it only stop there just to compare but the happiness that we feel we can't compare it right? True happiness is within us, it's inside our hearts and it's incomparable.