The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.

Steve Furtick

This is a very important thing to understand: Everyone struggles, everyone has their own problems. Some people have more problems, some have less, but everyone fights their own battles.

Don’t make the mistake to think that people just live awesome lifes without problems while you have so much things to work on. Especially in our social media generation we present ourselves on Facebook, Twitter and Co. with the best of our lifes.

We post pictures of holidays, parties, quote fun things, plan events. We don’t write what concerns us, what troubles us. And this is perfectly okay. But it is important for everyone to understand that these images that people build up are not a realistic approach at showing us who they really are.

Do not compare your life to other facebook profiles, that would be as stupid as to compare your life to the one of an imaginary movie character. Take TV Series for example. The characters socialize, party, talk, go out, have fun etc., but you almost never see them working or doing household chores. How boring would a series be if all characters had to work their 9-to-5?

In conclusion I emphasize again: Do not think too bad of yourself, chances are you have a kick-ass life with lots of fun. Everyone has work to do, everyone copes with something. The point that they don’t run around with banners proclaiming that they don’t like their job/sports/partner at the moment does not mean they are satisfied. We are all humans. We have problems, fears, insecurities and we don’t always know what to do and how to do it. Don’t overthink, enjoy your life 🙂

/phil