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Hey,

Something I've been chewing on lately.

My grandfather worked at the same place for 30 years.
Raised four kids.
Didn’t travel much.

And from everything I could tell, the man was at peace with his life in a way I've never been with mine.

I used to think that was a generational thing.

Simpler times, lower expectations, whatever. But I don't think that's it anymore.

His world was small. He knew his neighbors, his coworkers, his family.

That was the whole picture.
And inside that picture, he could see himself clearly.
He knew where he stood.

I wake up and before I've even made coffee, I've already seen how a hundred strangers are living.

Someone my age bought a house in cash.
Someone younger just sold a company.
A guy I went to school with is in Thailand for the third time this year.

None of that has anything to do with my life. I know that. But knowing doesn't help.
The feeling lands before the logic catches up.

And I think that's the part worth paying attention to, it's not that we're weak or insecure. It's that we're exposed to something completely new.

No generation before us woke up to a window showing them thousands of lives that look better than theirs.

We're the first ones dealing with this, and we're dealing with it with the same brain that was built to keep track of a village.

There's no setting for this. No filter your mind can run.

It just takes it all in and draws a conclusion: you're behind.

But behind who? Someone you don't know, showing you what they chose to show you?

I stopped trying to fix this with mindset. "Just don't compare yourself" is like sitting in a room full of food after not eating for three days and saying "just don't be hungry."

It doesn't work like that.

So I stopped fighting it. I let myself compare.
But I changed who I was looking at.

Instead of some stranger in Dubai, I pulled up my own photos from a year ago.
My old notes. My bank account from twelve months back. And something shifted, because that comparison actually meant something. It was real.

And honestly? I was further ahead than I thought. Not by a mile.
But enough to realize the problem was never my progress. It was the measuring stick.

You don't need to delete your apps or go on a digital detox.
You just need one honest look at where you were a year ago.

If there's movement, even a little, you're not behind.
You just forgot to check the only score that actually counts.

Your grandparents weren't tougher.
They just never had to filter out the entire world before breakfast.

Until next week
Lorenc - Founder of Success Skill