Not a day passes when we don’t judge good from bad, better from best or worse. Concisely, we are in the zone of comparing our life (mis)fortunes with others we admire or seek superiority over.
Comparison is a disease because it leads us to try to one-up anyone who has a possession we want or one we have that seems inferior or superior to theirs.
When we are in this envy or smugness state, our life game plan is put on the back burner in order to compete and hold the best jewels in our treasure trove at the expense of our moral solvency.
Enough is always enough – that is the measure of success, not the dollar value of our possessions. To understand what enough is means to evaluate what is important to us before purchasing superfluous or overly-extravagant items meant to impress others rather than to serve a necessary function in moving our lives up to the next level.
Several times in our life we must ask ourselves: Who am I and what do I stand for? The more clarity you get about those baffling questions, the less likely you are to go astray by buying crap that doesn’t solidify your philosophic and moral foundation.
Chinese Taoist philosopher, Lao Tzu, put it this way: “When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” That is great advice for those of us who unconsciously go astray and drift toward moral bankruptcy.
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