Responding to Netzens Questions

Follow-Up Question: In your entry Irony of Life what are the reasons why humans are never content with themselves or what they have?

I think one of the reasons why we are not content with ourselves is because we have the habit of comparing ourselves to others financially or professionally.  At times it even extends to something trivial, like comparing how your wife fails miserably in the face department as compared to your friend's wife.  Or his son is lording it over academically and your daughter is just average.

The evils of comparison are much more far-fetched than we usually think them to be. Comparing ourselves to others with respect to our financial, emotional, social, or intellectual condition keeps us unhappy about our own lives. We tend to rarely focus on our own unique talents and abilities, or what we already have. 

Comparing with others shifts our focus away from the positive aspects of our own life, and we tend to become disheartened, thinking about what others have that we do not.

We often forget that we also have something ... that they don't have.