From Elenor Roosevelt - “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
It applies to other situations besides inferiority - like the feeling of failure.
Bottom line - we are solely accountable for how we feel - not someone else’s “success”, or anything else.
Related story - when I did a healthcare mission in Ft. Liberte, Haiti, an extremely impoverished country. One year, my interpreter wanted to show us his home. It was a hut made of cinder blocks, with a metal roof. He showed us his room, which had a thin pad on a dirt floor for a bed, an old wooden wine crate for a bedside table, and a small clock and two figurines, the extent of his worldly possessions. He was so proud to show us his room and his things, and to tell us how happy his life is. He did not know, or seemingly care, of what he did not have - he was happy with all that he did have. His ambition was to help others and be a good neighbour to his community. A lesson I have never forgotten...
From Elenor Roosevelt - “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
It applies to other situations besides inferiority - like the feeling of failure.
Bottom line - we are solely accountable for how we feel - not someone else’s “success”, or anything else.
Related story - when I did a healthcare mission in Ft. Liberte, Haiti, an extremely impoverished country. One year, my interpreter wanted to show us his home. It was a hut made of cinder blocks, with a metal roof. He showed us his room, which had a thin pad on a dirt floor for a bed, an old wooden wine crate for a bedside table, and a small clock and two figurines, the extent of his worldly possessions. He was so proud to show us his room and his things, and to tell us how happy his life is. He did not know, or seemingly care, of what he did not have - he was happy with all that he did have. His ambition was to help others and be a good neighbour to his community. A lesson I have never forgotten...