You think everyone else is doing everything, and doing it WELL.
You probably don’t even realize you believe this, but your thoughts and feelings show that you do.
Because you look at the lives of your friends around you, in real life and on social media, and add up all the good things.
Fashion sense of friend #1 + cooking skills of friend #2 + faith life of friend #3 + marriage of friend #4 + craftiness of friend #5 + cute house of friend #6 = YOU. Well, it doesn’t equal you; you just wish it did, and that’s the problem.
You’ve added up everyone else’s “bests” and constructed an impossible standard for yourself.
“We no longer assess our lives with any accuracy. We have lost the ability to declare a job well-done. We measure our performance against an invented standard and come up wanting, and it is destroying our joy. No matter how hard we work or excel in an area or two, it never feels like enough. Our primary defaults are exhaustion and guilt. Meanwhile, we have beautiful lives begging to be really lived, really enjoyed, really applauded. We cannot do it all, have it all, or master it all. That is simply not a thing.”
“We were created for more—way more. We were not created for earth—but for eternity. We were not created to be liked but to show love. We were not created to draw attention to ourselves but to give glory to God. We were not created to collect followers but to follow Christ.”
Source:
http://www.wholemagazine.org/posts/the-reason-you-feel-like-youre-failing-at-life#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_si=5981586855038ed5&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1
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