Reading Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata this morning, this caught my attention:
“If you compare yourself with others you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”
This in turn reminded me of a similar bit of advice in Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen:
“Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself.”
A lot of energy and resources have been spent in civilization trying to prove these concepts wrong. Lord knows I’ve spent a good deal of time and effort trying to do so. My inclination is to say that we have all failed in those efforts, and in one sense that is true, but then it occurs to me that perhaps it is in those “failures” that we are led to the wisdom they provide.
It occurs to me... 