Do you find yourself more interested in other people’s lives? Somehow, others’ lives seem far more fascinating than yours?
It’s a disease. I call it ‘I want to be in someone else’s shoes’ disease.
Okay, maybe it’s too long for a scientific name. Maybe we can settle for ‘the shoes disease’. But then people might mistaken it for pain from wearing uncomfortable shoes for a long time or something.
Anyway, symptoms of the above mentioned disease;
But if you continue to the final stage, the dreadful stage of frustration, you’re screwed. The awful disappointment of not being able to live up to your utopical perfection. This is the stage where you are extremely unhappy.
Sometimes, it’s cool to keep yourself updated about others. As a sign of concern or to learn from their experience or as a form of entertainment. But to let yourself succumb into that sort of emotional pain? Especially when you fail to get that exact hairstyle or worse, that same amount of money?
I read from somewhere “being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections”
You may not be perfect, but you are significant and perfect for our imperfect reality.
It’s a disease. I call it ‘I want to be in someone else’s shoes’ disease.
Okay, maybe it’s too long for a scientific name. Maybe we can settle for ‘the shoes disease’. But then people might mistaken it for pain from wearing uncomfortable shoes for a long time or something.
Anyway, symptoms of the above mentioned disease;
- You enjoy watching/reading about others more than going out with friends
- You have pictures of them; softcopy or hardcopy
- You started to change yourself so that you can be more like em
But if you continue to the final stage, the dreadful stage of frustration, you’re screwed. The awful disappointment of not being able to live up to your utopical perfection. This is the stage where you are extremely unhappy.
Sometimes, it’s cool to keep yourself updated about others. As a sign of concern or to learn from their experience or as a form of entertainment. But to let yourself succumb into that sort of emotional pain? Especially when you fail to get that exact hairstyle or worse, that same amount of money?
I read from somewhere “being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections”
You may not be perfect, but you are significant and perfect for our imperfect reality.
