For Joyful Life 

Identify and be free from the infection of comparison

Are you living for you or for others?

If you always aim to improve your ‘image’ in the view of your family, friends, etc,

You are not living your life. In fact you live for others’ views about you.

In that case, all your thoughts and communication with others will mainly center on comparing you, your family, your residence, your car, your wealth, etc with others, especially those with whom you want to compete.

Obviously you may not have time to think of your passions, your natural needs and interests. The basic needs of your joyful living will remain unattended as the price for the disease of the infection of comparison you were trapped.

Consciously or unconsciously most of us are trapped and most of the marketing techniques thrive on perpetuating the infection of comparison.

Instead of acquiring the modern gadgets to serve our joyful living, we become slaves to acquire them to elevate us in others’ views.

The wonderful music and dances in nature (from the birds, trees, etc explained in a post below) are denied till we get rid of the infection.

Also we may not be blessed to move with the unbelievably wonderful human beings among the ordinary people. Instead we will be happy (?) to gain access to the ‘celebrity’, who themselves were trapped (& suffering) in the artificial image built around them to serve some ‘marketing’ interests.

How to get rid of the infection?

Go to a lonely place near trees. hills, river, etc.

Just sit, relax and gradually reflect over your activities, conversations till you suspected of the infection.

Inspect if you had experienced any joy that had nothing to do with the comparison infection.

If most of the happiness you had experienced were directly or indirectly related to that infection , probably your are not living for you and may be missing many really joyful experiences in life.

Once you retune yourself to live for you and never for elevating you in others’ views, you will be free to enjoy a joyful life.

If you do not suffer from that infection, you are already leading a blessed joyful life. Congratulations.