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Be Encouraged. You're Better Than You Think.
Yesterday a stranger left a very sweet comment on a piece I'd written, saying, "I wish I was half as good a person as you seem to be."
My reply to her was, "I wish I was too."
Her kind words revealed the universal flaw of humanity: we are chronically oblivious to our own goodness.
We all suffer from comparison sickness, forever measuring the reality of ourselves against what we imagine about everyone else. We view our lives with an unforgiving microscope of hyper-proximity and the rest of the world through a filtered telescope of manipulated distance. We see what people choose to reveal to…
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