Is it acceptable to measure yourself a failure when you juxtapose your own accomplishments, with those of an over-achiever?
Its an irrefutable truth that in today’s world, the majority has declared that human life is to be measured in dollars and cents (or whichever currency is the standard for ones country) but how does that equate to real worth? Are we to measure worth by accomplishment?
Does the existence of people having a degree (or 2 or 3) by the time they’re 25, make those the same age without degrees failures?
What about being bilingual, v. only speaking a single language?
What about physical appearance? The slender v. the obese?
We measure ourselves all the time, consciously and unconsciously, but what does it even mean to measure yourself? Knowing that the scales are all relative to ones context, why do we even bother?
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