Comparisons Make You Feel Like Poo!

“I make as much as she does; why can’t I dress like that?”

“She’s had three kids, I’ve only had one, why can’t I have that body?”

“She’s got it all together, always on time, always looking good; why not me?”

“Why, why, why???”

Ladies, does this sound familiar?  Or, I am the only one that is constantly comparing herself to other women?  Why is that we can never be good enough. . . for ourselves?

I never have a hard time thinking of all the blessings in my life: my family, Livvie, Jonathan, the roof over my head, and the food on my plate.  This isn’t a pity party about what I don’t have.  It just never fails that I find some quality in another woman that I wish I had myself.  I guess to some extent it is healthy, but to some extent, it’s just dangerous to my mental well-being.

I think that women are naturally competitive.  We want to have the most well-behaved children, the best hair, the neatest home, and the cutest shoes.  Identifying qualities within ourselves on which we would like to improve is healty.  Self-improvement is a good thing.  But at some point, I think we should all just realize certain things about ourselves that are just simply parts of our personality,and without them, we wouldn’t be ourselves.  For instance, I am forgetful. . . extremely forgetful.  Flighty as the day is long.  I realize this, and I do things to help me not forget EVERYTHING, such as maintaining a planner.  However, sometimes I forget to write things in the planner, or forget the planner all together!  So, although I do things to keep me from forgetting the important things in life, at some point, I just have to realize that being flighty is part of what makes me me, and I will never be that woman who has it “all together” (even if I do have the cutest shoes!)

Ladies, God made you who you are.  Be the best you that you can be, but LOVE yourself.