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COMPARISON IS FOOLISH, DON'T BE A FOOL

I have come to discover that we are all created equal, but we don't have the same abilities and the same destinies. We don't even have the same background.
Life is not meant to be a competition or a comparison between two or more people. Therefore stop living your life as if you are in competition with anyone.
Living your life in competition with anyone is nothing but folly and a waste of time.
If you must compete at all, strive to compete only with yourself.
Make up your mind to be better today than you were yesterday.
Don't buy things simply because others are buying them. If you look at what others have and what you lack, you will constantly live under stress and pressure which is not good for your health.
Measuring up with others cannot make you who you really are meant to be.
Comparison is an enemy of contentment.
The Bible says "Godliness with contentment is great gain".
There are a lot of miserable 'successful' people, who live their lives acquiring what they don't need in order to impress people they don't like. What an ironic tragedy of life!
It is very expensive to live a life that is not your own. It is costly to live a fake life. It costs untold pain and misery. More so, it makes people deviate from their divine purpose in life.
My dear brother or sister, strive rather than be the best that you can be by occupying yourself with the most important things that will make you grow and take you closer to the fulfillment of your destiny.
If you keep comparing yourself with others, you may become proud or bitter for there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Don't judge yourself through someone else's eyes.
Don't measure yourself based on someone else's cloth.
Focus constantly on outdoing yourself through a constant and never-ending improvement, that will help you reach your goals in life.
Walking in another man's shoes will only make you look funny, miserable, and frustrated. Just try to imagine what David looked and felt like while dressed in Saul's armor when he tried going against Goliath. Thank God he later discarded Saul's armor and went as himself.
To be sincere, it costs nothing to be you, but it costs a lot more to be somebody else.
You are not inferior because someone has what you do not have yet. You don't have it yet does not mean you will not have it eventually. Every destiny has timing for its fulfillment.
Life is lived in stages and men are measured in sizes. Don't calculate your destiny based on what others have.
Like a vapor, those who appear before their time soon disappear into oblivion. If you appear before your time, you will disappear when your time eventually comes.
Learn to live your life and be happy all the way.
The secret of true and lasting greatness is striving to be the best of who you are, where you are, when you can, and with what you have. It is giving the best of what you have to your world without feeling inferior or guilty.
I am Real Olufemi, I care.

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