Comparison - The quiet theft of "enoughness".

Comparisons... just one more item, on an ever-expanding buffet of human habits, capable of turning a perfectly good morning into a very bad one, in the blink of an eye. We might wake up, feeling relatively chipper, coffee in hand, birds-a-chirping, hair acceptable, with a B+ for emotional stability. And then Wham!..

Your online scrolling uncovers some bloke you sort-of-knew at school, standing shirtless and barefoot in a Tuscan lemon grove, beside his perfect CEO wife who rescues donkeys and has won awards for helping old people cross busy roads. Their four, suspiciously blond, symmetrical children are all dressed in linen clothing, eating organic peaches.

Exactly 45 minutes later, you are questioning every decision you have made since 2003.

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