Comparing yourself to others

 

 

 

I know you've learned you should compare

Yourself to others, and you swear

That many can do better than

You ever could, and made a plan

To try and fight and beat them all

But deep inside you're insecure

And think you're worthless and no good

And so you stop to hope you could

Get what will make you feel

Complete and happy, and you still

Try hard to fit in with the crowd

And that can never make you proud

But listen here, you are just one

There's no more "you"'s, you are a sun

You have to know you are on Earth

With one great purpose, from your birth!

And all the things you do or say

Are perfect in a higher way

God made you do all that for you

And for the others, so be true

To what you feel inside your soul

Do what it makes you feel like whole

Relax and never think you're less

Than any other human, bless

All things and people and enjoy

The good in life, do not destroy

The purpose that you have, you know

It may not be fame, fortune, show...

You might just be a simple guy

You shouldn't bitch and start to cry

Be sure that you are perfect just

The way you are, and that you must

Be thankful, joyful, and to try

To do your best to feel alive

The real you is just the same

As everything, it's just a game

Of forms and roles here on the Earth

And everyone has unique worth!

This has been one of the main problems in my life so far... competition, comparison to others, fighting, thinking that I was worth only as much as the things I was doing were worth, by comparison to what others were doing. Or even worse and tougher, to what I did myself in the past! It was easier to do better than many but though to do better than myself when younger and with more energy.
So, for me it was like major relief when I read all the teachings about conscience and that we really are not our ego neither our actions, form, whatever, but we are way more than that, and the best thing, we are all the same inside! We are all made of the same thing, the same thing that the whole Universe is made, behind form. So, when you see things from this point of view, any comparison becomes really useless and even funny. Comparing only the things that wont last... what's the use to that nonsense? Is pure wasted energy. We are all the same only with different missions (Karma), that have been given to us so we can evolve and get closer to perfection. It's silly to compare, noone is better than anyone, or worse, for that matter. We all have the same immortal matter in us, and the rest is going to vanish anyways, it's just a dream, you may say, a role. Comparing ourselves would be like saying about an actor that has played the bad guy in a movie that is a mean person, when he was only playing a role, of a mean person.
I hope I made some sense with this one :)
Peace!
xx