Stop Comparing and Start Living!
"...Force our smiles, baby, half dead/From comparing myself to everyone else around me..." The quote above comes from one of my favorite Fall Out Boy songs entitled, " I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song) ". While listening to this song the other day I got the great idea to write a blog post about something that stuck out to me in the song. When Pete Wentz wrote the song he was suicidal and had tons of "bad" thoughts on his mind (hence the title). It's actually considered to be a form of a suicide note. Now, I talk about suicide and depression a lot but what I never talked about was the feeling of being depressed because of comparisons. I think one of the main reasons a lot of people get down on themselves is because we compare ourselves to everyone else around us. To be truthful, I'm extremely guilty of this. Most of my years of misery came from me comparing myself to everyone els...