Day Eight // March 5 // Competing & Comparing “Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. ‘I will not Reason and Compare,’ said Blake; ‘my business is to Create.’ Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.” – Brenda Ueland –
There is nothing more distasteful than when the fruit of peace goes bad, when it morphs into competing and comparing. Nothing can make us more miserable or sour our view of the world so fast. I grew up in a three high school city. My school was the “new school” that transitioned from a junior high. The only problem was that our facilities were not on par with the other schools in town. We had no auditorium or football stadium; our classrooms still had the feel of the elementary school our facility had once been years before. We had to borrow facilities from the other, more prominent schools when they were not using them. It was easy for us to get into the “that’s not fair” mindset. It was hard not to compare
