>>34074272
Try harder. Gamble more. Lower your desires. Practice gratitude and acceptance. Cultivate, whatever you can, however you can.

If you're the type of person to compare stats and judge people's value based on them, please do kill yourself, those people are shallow and retarded and insufferable

I'm in a similar situation. Graduating at 33 instead of 22 because auto immune issues, but now I am fully healthy at least.

I guess I should just lie about my age.

>>34074272
Im starting life at 23, literally starting to study a career on this age. I suck at life too, and no im not give you any advice, I too fantasize about ending it all

Comparison is the thief of joy. You can't achieve mental stability if you constantly compare yourself to others.

>>34074302
If you DON'T do this then you're a brain-dead coping loser living in willful ignorance cuz ur so inferior and cowardly you need to cower away from comparison and gaslight urself that ur somehow the exact same as everyone else when no, everyone's got their various strengths and weaknesses, and yes, some people measure less than others, fkn wilfully blind cunt. Brain is a comparison engine, that's how we fkn make improvements to the world and everything and anything, using classification

>>34074553
People are all different, they have different growth processes, different pain points.

Comparing yourself to other people is wrong because two things can happen:

1. You decide they're better than you. Now you're insecure, your self-esteem gets dinged. You start thinking you don't have a right to exist in this world or try to meet your needs in it.

2. You decide you're better than them. Now your vanity gets inflated, you think no one is good enough for you, you close yourself to the world.

The only way out of this dilemma is to refuse comparison.

>>34074773
The issue is inaccuracy in comparison, which is rampant

>>34075626
How will accuracy prevent you from falling into either of the traps >>34074773 listed?

>>34074448
>at 23
oh anon, try doing it at 30
I fucking hate retards that think your early 20's are too late. Even more so because i used to be the same retard

You decided to give up without trying.

>>34074272
I am also a late bloomer but not by choice. This also made me the most ambitious man in the world.

>>34076012

Higher granularity means lower chance of deciding a person's ENTIRETY is superior/inferior to you. If one actually has to decompose one into tidbits, it's unlikely one will think a person is just BETTER or WORSE, instead everything will be compartmentalized.

>You decide they're better than you. Now you're insecure, your self-esteem gets dinged. You start thinking you don't have a right to exist in this world or try to meet your needs in it.

>You decide you're better than them. Now your vanity gets inflated, you think no one is good enough for you, you close yourself to the world.

Both scenarios imply one will "close off" to the world, the first scenario because 1 is too unworthy, the other because 1 is too worthy

But actually if one is in comparison engine mode, one will be more receptive to the world because it requires noticing and observing it acutely. One CANNOT "close off" and achieve this, one must open and expose oneself to the world to gain more accurate readings.

And one will realise that superior/inferior is not that branding/death sentencing, it's just a fact of life and one reads the cards they're dealt with and plays their hand better.

But there is no point ignoring the fact that some people have gifts/talents, others have weaknesses/hiccups/hindrances, all this helps the person target things with higher efficiency and live better.

The whole, never compare! Comparison is the thief of joy! Is far too reductionist/simple for actual pragmatic use, it's more of a platitude to calm sad sacks

If we truly compare, we'll start finding a probability/statistical distribution and find our place in it, and likely realise we're pretty average, maybe have a talent or two, maybe a hiccup or three, blah blah. As you say, we're all different, but we can only know how, by comparing

>>34074272
>I will never catch up.
This isn't a race, man. Go at your own pace.