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Why is Comparison the Thief of Joy?
Because you set yourself up to experience suffering that way.
Comparison is the thief of joy because it’s endless. There is always someone or something you can compare yourself to. That person has it better than you. Those people look better than you do. Their home/car/yard is nicer than yours. Comparison will always find someone for you to see and feel less than.
Similarly, comparison can make you feel superior to others. But that comes with a price, because if they become your equal or by comparison “better” than you, you’ll feel awful.
Everywhere you turn, people, places, and things are being compared. Politics is all about comparing candidate “A” and candidate “B” and what they stand for, how they will help or harm you, and an endless list of other matters.
This society is hell-bent on comparing this, that, and the other thing. You name it, it will be held up to “X” and “Y” and compared for quality, righteousness, good, bad, and everything else you can imagine. Then, making comparisons to dominant, artificial values applied to it, tied to fear, is a major factor of why this society you and I live in is a fear-based society.
