Think of it this way. You’re not getting any younger, and life isn’t going to get easier. In ten or twenty years, you won’t be able to do all of the things that you can do today. You’ll have less strength and vitality. Your senses and your mobility could be impaired, at least partially. Does it make sense to feel disappointed about things that you can do today, when in the future you will almost certainly be able to do less?
Enjoy everything that you have in your life right now and appreciate everything that you can do, even if it seems modest, even if it doesn’t appear to measure up to someone else’s level of success and ability. Forget about other people. They’re not you, and they are not in control of your happiness. Comparing yourself to others is a fool’s errand. Someone, somewhere on a planet of seven billion souls is going to be better than you are. So what? It’s not important. Focus on yourself and your own life. Enjoy what’s going on with you in this moment. The blessings that you count today are not guaranteed to be yours forever.
Nothing is more critical to your emotional well-being than being satisfied with who you are on this day and in this moment. If you can manage that, if you can feel earnest contentment in mind, body, and soul, everything else in your life will be manageable. Conversely, if you cannot figure out a way to feel good about yourself in your current, imperfect state, then nothing that you do, nothing that you buy, and no person that you meet or goal that you pursue will ever bring you a sense of true and lasting fulfillment. You can chase rainbows forever; their gold will remain out of reach.
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