All it takes is a walk down the magazine
rack at the grocery store. We throw food in the basket, wanting to make
healthy choices, then we see the cover of a magazine - someone with a “perfect”
body.
I think we’ve all felt the weight of
comparing ourselves against someone else (someone with more money, better
looking, thinner, more successful etc). After listening to Andy Stanley
this week, he pointed out that there is no “win” in comparison. One of
the things that can cause us run ourselves into the ground is trying to look
good to the person next to us. For some reason, we feel we need to be
better, look better and achieve more so that we will experience a sense of
wholeness and completion.
If
we start down this path, we run the risk of holding our achievements against
the milestones of others and therefore, judging them or ourselves. There is no
end to this and no peace if we hold our fitness goals up to what we see other
people doing. We have to run our own race, celebrating the success of others as
we go.
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