Social media is a huge part of our lives today. It makes it very easy to stay up to date on what your friends are doing. You can also stay up to date on what the rich and famous are doing. This can lead to us comparing our lives to everyone else’s. We see how well they are doing. How perfect their house “always” looks. We see how put together they always are. How perfect their house “always” is. This can be extremely frustrating. Not only if you are just getting out on your own, but if you have been on your own for a while.
We start to compare where we are in our life, to where they are. That’s not fair to ourselves. So many times, we just want to skip ahead to the next step in life that we forget to enjoy the step that we are in. We forget to learn from the step that we are in. We can’t allow yourself to keep comparing our lives to everyone else’s. They are not us. They’ve not been through what we have been through. They are not in your exact position.
If you are anything like me, which I bet you are somewhat, you get inspired by things on social media. Well, this can be an issue at times. That inspiration turns into a comparison. You start to think that your house should look like. That your car should be like that. You start to think that you should be able to make that. That you should be able to go on those adventures. Whatever the case may be. This can be very harmful to our self-image. We don’t stop and think about, it’s taken that family 20 years to get to that point. We don’t stop to think about that is only what we see. There is so much more that is hiding behind what people share with the world.
Social media makes it easy to think everyone has it together and their lives are perfect. That is not the case. What we don’t see is how hard people have worked to get to where they are. How long they’ve waited to get to that point in their life. We don’t see the huge pile of laundry just waiting to be done. That’s the problem with social media. It just gives us a glimpse into other people’s lives and doesn’t give us the whole picture.
Stop Comparing Yourself to Other!
If we let ourselves constantly compare our lives to others, we will beat ourselves up for not being where they are. This can tear people apart and ruin a home. We need to stop comparing ourselves to others and start letting them inspire us. Like I said before though, that inspiration can turn to comparison really quick. We need to keep it in check. Enjoy your life where you are now. If you can’t afford to have your house look like Joanna Gaines designed it, use her creativity to enhance your decor. Don’t continue to beat yourself up and feel bad because you aren’t there yet. It’s okay. We all go through growing pains. Don’t look at other people’s finished product and let it discourage your work in progress.
Being a new family of our own, Justin and I fight this all the time. I see other people’s houses and get discouraged because mine doesn’t look like that. Justin sees other families going on all these adventures and traveling the country and then gets discouraged because that’s not something we can do right now. What we keep telling each other, is that if we work hard, we can get there. The key to achieving those dreams is to work hard and let discouragement consume you. We can’t keep comparing ourselves to everyone else and not consider the journey it took them to get there. So next time you start to do that, stop and think about what you need to do in order to achieve those things other people have inspired you to work towards.
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