Comparison's

Making comparison's in shopping is necessary, essential if one is on a budget.
Checking out differences between products can be interesting and vital to the use of it.
But, making yourself stand in comparison to another is futile. YOU are YOU, special, talented and physically put together mostly due to genetics....my Mom has blue eyes, so does my Dad...have I ever wished for brown eyes? No. I'm on the shorter version of the scale, do I wish for long, long legs...well, somedays it would be nice, but do I dwell on wanting those long long legs, NO. I accepted who I am, I suppose, a long time ago. We all do things to make ourselves "look" better, feel better and that in my opinion is just fine, it's when I talk with people who seem to always compare themselves to others, what kind of scale are they using to say they aren't "as pretty", "as smart", "as wealthy"...etc, it's seems we have drawn up some sort of strange and odd table that one is never going to achieve what WE THINK WE WANT ...it's the old saying "keeping up with the Jones'...." whoever made up that one said a mouthful!!
It's funny but just the other day at work I mentioned to a friend that when I sit down to read at home, I like the room tidy. But should I sit down to read in someone else's home and it was not a tidy room I would be fine to sit down and read. It's my house, my corner and how I like my things. It really doesn't affect me about other's things....I enjoy going to my friend's home and sitting back enjoying her lovely and very modern home. I don't come home and compare my house to hers! It's her house, how she likes things....my personality shows in my house and in my stuff. Comparing mine to hers would just get me into a frenzy, I don't have the money, time and effort to do that....nor do I want to.
Comparing yourself at work. Good grief. We each have a job to do. If the President of the place is gone missing for a year, the place looses balance and leadership,...should the Janitor go missing for a year, the places is filthy and a mess. I understand that this is a simplified simile but you get my drift. We each have tasks to do that keep a place of work mobile and on track, should one postition be held in higher esteem than another?, not in my little head.

In my little world, we are pieces of a puzzle that all fit, the puzzle is not a 3D puzzle with some pieces being "higher" than others....it's a flat playing ground...and each of us have a place to fit into to make our "world" work. Skinny, tall, highly educated, compassionate, whatever ingredients make YOU up....you're unique and you bring a special flavor to the world you live in.
It's an intricate and delicate place, Doctor's hold lives in their hands everyday and I am thankful for their skill and knowledge, teachers shape the mind of children, parents love, police guard and uphold the laws, friends care, communities support....we each have a rare and special role to be.
Don't compare, chose to BE the person God made you up to be....it's a lot about choices.

Be slow to compare yourself to others either physically, emotionally or intellectually....Be quick to add your special qualities that make up YOUR heart, YOUR mind, and YOUR spirit.
God made you unique and a special fit for the puzzle of this life, be sure to fit into your own space and not try to fit into some else's. You won't be comfortable, happy or content until you snuggle into your space that God created specifically for you.

once again, just my thoughts....