Never Compare Yourself-We all are Unique

@aakay4u (799)
India
December 22, 2008 2:16pm CST
If we compare ourselves with someone superior we get inferiority complex and if we compare ourselves with someone inferior,we get superiority complex.Both are bad.Still i find many people doing it.Why dont we just respect ourselves for what we are and keep on making efforts to improve ourselves.Whats your opinion?
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7 responses
• Philippines
23 Dec 08
I agree with you about respecting ourselves for what we are and to keep trying to improve ourselves. But I will still encourage people to have good role models to inspire them and whose achievements they can aspire to equal or excel.
@roberten (3128)
• United States
23 Dec 08
It takes a healthy mental state to accept and love one's self as is with all your faults and shortcomings but I feel I am in that place and I'm loving it. I know that there will always be someone better and not as good when it comes to certain things in my life but that only adds to the flavor of life for all concerned. I do not want to be a cookie cutter kid blindly following the crowd, I just want to be the best me that I can be. I am not here to measure up but to be sured up and expand my own horizons; my life is my own to be shared with whom I chose. I am special because no one else is exactly like me nor will ever be, therefore I never have to compete with anyone. Life is absolutely whatever I choose to make it, and I choose to make it meaningful for me. No one is more interested in me than myself. No one is more helpful to me than myself. No one is more necessary to my welfare than myself. I need the companionship of others but healthy socialization begins with me. I am, I know that I am, and I am glad to be. Self-realization is especially important to healthy relationships because you cannot love others if you do not first love yourself. Everything that you are or hope to be begins with you. Getting to know me has opened up a whole world of opportunities for me to get to know and love others, and had made life all the more awesome.
@PRIYANK1992 (1677)
• India
23 Dec 08
Yeah I think you are right we are unique we have qualities which would never found in anybody.
@srikandi19 (3391)
• Kuta, Indonesia
22 Dec 08
I actually feel low self make discuss or responses in here. my English language is not good. But I have strong determination , why I must shame ? I'm not stealing, not deception. I am happy and enjoy in here even if there give a advice for me. that's may improve English language.
@mokbul (616)
• Singapore
23 Dec 08
You are very right. Everyone has limitation. Comparing with others will cause hurt feeling only. But in another sense comparing is necessary for improving. It gives the driving force to think that whay can not be like him or her?
• Philippines
22 Dec 08
Hello aakay, yes you are right to say we are Unique, in the sense that we are really differs with each other and no two persons are completely alike even twins.Our thumb marks speaks it so... It is also true that we are not suppose to compare ourselves to others because every body has different functions in different circumstances...The superior personality might not be supeior in some other aspects and the inferior personality might be very good in another aspects.But both are very good in the aspects that they are gifted at...We have different gifts and weaknesses.
@ashjoe76 (1422)
• India
22 Dec 08
We all get an idea about ourselves from what we observe in others. So, there is no escape from comparisons. But the problem starts when you get obsessed with it. Sometimes you wish to be like someone who is in a much higher position than yours. When you fail, you get disappointed. And sometimes when you feel that you are better than the others, you end up being too full of yourself. The key to happiness is in keeping a good balance of views.