I can't remember where I first saw this picture but it’s been the background on my iPod for as long as I can remember so I thought I'd share it with you all.
Theodore Roosevelt's observation on society that ‘comparison is the thief of joy’ got me thinking that we have evolved this need to compare ourselves to others in everything we do: They've got a better car/more A's/better salary/bigger house.
But we weren't always like that, when we were children we didn't care who got to the top of the tree first, the thrill was in the climb. We didn't care whether our clothes were Dior as long as they could get dirty. We didn't care because we weren't comparing ourselves to the person society wanted us to be and were just being the person we wanted to be.
Therefore I think we should make a conscious effort to get back to the child’s view of the world where judgement and comparison are just fancy words that adults use.
Because if there's two things I'm sure of its that Theodore Roosevelt was right, comparison is the thief of joy.
- Elizabeth Louise
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