Do you think it lowers a person self esteem to compare yourself to other people?
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Depends on whom u're comparing with!
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It depends on who you are comparing yourself to. If you are comparing yourself to people who do better than yourself, they you Will always feel worse off. Yet if you compare yourself to people who do worse than you, you will feel as though you are in a superior position and have an inflated self esteem.
yes because there's always going to be someone who is smarter, stronger, better-looking, etc.. I still do it though..
if you are compareing your flaws to someone without those same flaws yes. But it goes the other way too. Somepeople point out the flaws in others to raise how they feel about themselves. Both ways i think it's wrong. Everybody uses what they have to work with, to the best of their ability. Everybody has different knowledge and experiences to work with, for we have all been through different things. so it's not fair to compare any person to another. because we have all been given different tools with which to build our futures and personalitys.
Well since nobody is really the same, I would think comparing one's self to another would be unnatural.
First off if someone seems perfect to you..Nomatter what you do to yourself be it,.. dye your hair, change your style of dress, plastic or cosmetic surgery, lose or gain weight etc.. that person will still be perfect to you and you won't ever get to be them..(if you can understand my meaning here)
Now what you think is perfect, might not be perfect to someone else..
So to answer your question..
Yes I think it can very well lower your self esteem..
You have to be you.. a total individual ..
Not a clone of someone else..
That is why I never in my lifetime chose to follow fads etc..
I like being me.. flaws and all.go figure!! lol
yeah. :/ i can't stop though. it just happens...although i never had a good self esteem to begin with.
Comparing yourself with others is not a good thing to be doing, although even the most enlightened individuals do it, the reason it is counterproductive in general is that your impression of somebody else is a projection of yourself, you don't really know the other person as well as you think, even if it is a spouse of many years. we all live in our own version of reality although there is some overlap this is a concept proposed by many philosophers like Heidegger and the psychologist Jung. Comparing is a natural human trait sometimes effective in the former hunter gatherer times for survival and in the cut throat business and employment world and really in all parts of life, but you reap what you sow if you judge others you may be not only wrong in your judgment but you may be keeping yourself from forming a higher cognitive reasoning
" if you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always their will be greater and lesser person than yourself" ^_^
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