LIFE MATH

Naturally, we tend to compare our lives with others'.
Sometimes, the excuse was so we can do and be better.
She is studying for five hours a day so she can be the best student in class. So I should study for five hours too.
He is going to gym three times a week and he's lost 10 kg in three months. I should be doing that so I can lose 10 kg too.
And many cases of "I should be doing the same thing with others so I can have the same result as them, or even better".
Can I ask you...

What if you don't?

What if you've studied for six hours a day but you're still at 10th rank in class?
What if you've gone to gym four times a week but you only have lost 5 kg in three months so far?
Do you consider yourself as failure?

Most probably you would.

Only recently I think we shouldn't compare ourselves with others for whatever reasons.
Some people are poorer than the others not because they're less smarter or work less harder.
Some people are last in class not because they didn't pay attention.
Some people don't want to get married not because they don't obey their God :)

Life isn't mathematics.
You can't copy someone else's work and expect the same score.
Because in mathematics, there's only one answer right.
But even in mathematics, there are many ways to get into one right answer.

Some people are rich because they're born rich, or they won a lottery (being rich is winning a life lottery as well!), or they work so much harder than the others, or they're incredibly lucky, or many other reasons.
Some people are the best students because they study hard, or because they're genetically a fast learner, or because they've found the best way to study effectively, or some other reasons.
Etc. Etc.

Us too, can be good in our ways.
Stop comparing ourselves with others.
The only person we should compare ourselves with is us in the past.
And, my friend, it's already pretty damn hard.