Member-only story
How To Not Give a Rat’s Ass About What Other People Think of You
No rats were harmed in the making of this article
“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” — Picasso
At school it was about who had the nicest trainers, as we grew up a little, it turned to who had the latest phone. Then when we get to high school we’d compare social status and friendship circles. Mr and Mrs Popular.
When we entered the world of adulting, the focus turned to who has the best career prospects, who earns the most money and has the biggest house.
Throw in the added benefit of knowing what everyone is doing every minute of the day (thanks Zuckerburg) and you get a recipe for disaster.
If you want to know who has the biggest house in the group of people that went to school with you, log on to Facebook, do some cross-comparison. It will probably take you an hour.
What it won’t tell you is who’s the happiest. And that’s what you really want, isn’t it? Happiness.
