HH, Patriarch Sir Johnson
Dear Unique Creations,
Social media has created an epidemic of comparison that is quietly destroying souls. Every day, you scroll through carefully curated highlight reels of other people’s lives, comparing their best moments to your ordinary reality, their strengths to your weaknesses, their victories to your struggles. This comparison breeds discontent, envy, and a deep sense of inadequacy.
You must understand that comparison is a trap that robs you of joy and paralyzes your progress. When you measure yourself against others, you will always find someone more successful, more gifted, further along, more blessed. This comparison leads to one of two destructive conclusions: either pride (I am better than they) or despair (I will never measure up).
Both responses miss the fundamental truth: you were created as an original, not a copy. Your assignment is unique. Your gifts are specific. Your journey is yours alone. The person you are tempted to envy is fighting battles you know nothing about. The life that looks perfect from the outside may be crumbling behind closed doors.
Instead of comparing yourself to others, compare yourself to who you were yesterday. Are you growing? Are you learning? Are you becoming more of who you were created to be? This is the only meaningful measurement. Celebrate others’ victories without diminishing your own worth. Their success does not require your failure. There is room for everyone to shine.
Focus on your own lane. Run your own race. Develop your own gifts. Fulfil your own calling. Stop looking sideways at what others are doing and keep your eyes fixed on where you are going. The energy you waste in comparison could be invested in your own development.
Remember, you have something unique to offer that no one else can give. The world needs your specific expression, your particular voice, your distinctive contribution. When you spend your life trying to be someone else, we all lose the gift of who you were meant to be.
Be authentically, unapologetically you.
Patriarch Johnson
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