What I see in different shades of gray, from behind my reading glasses
Leo Babauta illustrates why we aren’t content with our lives, & why it is a wasted exercise trying to compare yourself to others:
It’s not a comparison that makes sense. You can’t compare apples to apples when you compare yourself to anyone else. Which means it’s a dumb comparison — why would you compare how tangy an orange is compared to a beach? They’re not similar things.
Read this in a newsletter today, and it piqued my interest:
According to psychologist Daniel Ariely, someone is given a choice between two vacations — a week in either Paris and Rome at the same price with free breakfast each day — where they are equally likely to choose either one. Then further suppose that a third choice is added — Rome at the same price without free breakfast — then that same person will become much more likely to select the option of Rome with the free breakfast.