I recently had a major jealousy problem. The green eyed monster seemed to appear everywhere, but mainly it focused on this one woman who I felt had everything that I wanted. I wanted her life. Now, you all know I live a pretty beautiful life, but for some reason this woman seemed to always have everything I wanted. She seemed SO happy, content, popular, fulfilled, and this meant that everyone else noticed it, so she became more happy, more content and more popular.
I honestly have not had a case of jealous this badly in years. I cannot remember ever having it this badly, actually.
But then I got to know the woman and realized that I was doing something very common: “Comparing my insides to her outsides.” It turns out that she struggles and in fact, she used to be far less confident a few years ago. It turns out that her path mirrors mine in a lot of ways.
Comparing how we feel on the inside to how people look on the outside (not knowing how they feel on the inside), is a dangerous thing. It’s caused me to forget my awesome-ness. I know, somewhere in me that I’m awesome (I hope you don’t mind me mentioning that! :)). But it’s easy to forget.
So I was really touched when my chiropractor’s office was doing a book of awesomeness with their clients, based on the Book of Awesome (http://1000awesomethings.com/book/). I thought I’d pass it on: what’s your awesome-ness that you have forgotten recently?
My awesome is that I have an ability to make others laugh and think more about their own self-worth.
