Life was a lot better before screens seemed to change our world. They have reduced the level of deep work people put into their lives.
A five-minute scroll on our walls could silently steal fifty minutes of our time, and we may not even realize it.This occurrence has also heightened comparison among people.
Now we can peep into others’ lives- see their successes, watch them launch a new product, a new business, a new house, a new book, a new everything. And one thing that runs through your veins is the venom of jealousy.
So you ask, in extreme soberness:
“What am I launching?”
“What am I really doing with my life?”
“I am making no progress!”
Then you wipe your tears of sorrow, shut off, and sulk in your misery.
This sometimes feels like me.
I ask myself:
What am I really doing?
I feel so left out of life’s progress.
I could sulk in this all day, and hours slip away.
Comparison steals our livelihood and our focus. It keeps us stuck in our lives and prevents us from feeling happy for people’s progress. This is how we become enemies of progress.
People’s progress should motivate us! If she did this, why can’t I try and thrive in my field?
Comparison steals our identity. We can easily drift into people’s lives, leaving our own assignment behind. We now want to be like them, post like them, host programs like them.
So where is our uniqueness? our own design?
Comparison is a thief of gratitude. They use a better phone, and you? The same phone for five years!Have you realized there are thousands who still can’t afford your current phone? Are you grateful for access to the internet? Are you grateful for access to data, to even show up?
Flip the other side of comparison.
Compare your yesterday with today. Compare your daily progress.Take a look at yourself in the mirror. Go back to your drawing board.
What are the prophecies over your life?
What are the instructions that guide you?
Can you now turn on your light?
Matt. 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
