Comparing
What is Comparing?
The painful habit of measuring your financial situation against others and always finding yourself lacking. Social media and lifestyle inflation make this worse. Constant comparison steals joy from what you actually have.
When you might feel comparing
Comparing is a specific form of envious, which itself is a type of scarcity. You might experience this feeling in situations where scarcity is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define comparing.
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