RE: Comparing Yourself To Others: Knowing Your Identity
Greetings, dear Lydia
Beautiful post. I think the comparison we make in relation to our person and the other is not something that part "alone" out of our heads. It is raised in our childhood, when we have a caregiver (usually a parent) who is in comparing to another person. Usually the mothers who do this. It's a way to manipulate the children. For example, the mother wants the child view certain clothes. She speaks like this: look, your friend is an excellent daughter, because she wears clothes that her mother is talking about ... See how a simple phrase can generate a bad belief in the child and then get her to take it to the adult world when I grow up? This type of child suffering these manipulations will have more self-esteem tends low and always be comparing yourself with others, finding that following the idea of the people, will be someone accepted. The base of it all is this belief: "if I is equal to people will be accepted by them". That disturbs a lot of someone's life, because she never will tend to achieve your full potential because it will always be following the herd.
Thank you for the lovely post.
I wanted your opinion on what I wrote.
Good morning!!!!
I agree, I was just thinking more about the social media aspect really though. Like what people see on social media and they like to try to compete or copy it but it's not necessarily what people need in their lives because it can be detrimental.