I would like to pose a question.

What good would the world be if we all looked alike?

Think about that for a minute.

We would all be one face — one representation of a person. There wouldn’t be a collection of races and ethnicities. There wouldn’t be different hair types and styles. There would be just one.

Now let me push that thought even further.

What good would the world be if we not only looked alike but we were the same being?

What if we had the same thoughts, the same wants, the same everything?

We knew what each other was going to say because we were going to say it ourselves. We wouldn’t be considered individuals because there would be nothing individual about us. We would buy the same food, shop at the same stores and in return, be exactly the same.

You are looking at these scenarios and thinking that this is absurd. You are thinking: "Well why would you even think that way? That doesn’t sound right. That sounds crazy."

Here’s my last question.

If you think that these scenarios are so crazy and unfathomable, then why exactly are you comparing yourself to everybody else?

Now you are probably thinking that you don’t; however, I am most certainly sure that you have. When you looked to apply to the job you wanted and it had a skill that you did not possess, did you wish you had that skill? Did you think of someone who did? You’ve compared yourself to someone else.

Have you been on Facebook or Instagram and started strolling down your timeline to find someone having a good ol’ time on vacation or at a conference or awarded something or elated about their new “anything” that they have done that looks far greater than what you have done?

Were you wishing you were, indeed, on that trip or awarded something of importance? Were you wondering how they got that new job or new relationship, while you are stuck where you are? Well it looks like you’ve compared yourself to someone else.

OK. You haven’t done any of these things, you say, and you never ever have compared yourself to someone else. Well, congratulations to you!

However, I am speaking to those who are moving into the next phase of their lives and are trying so hard to make themselves stand out. What many fail to realize is that they cannot do things just to make themselves look better than others. You have to have a passion for what you are doing. All that comparing yourself to others is going to do is run you faster to the grave.

You will be worn out, stressed out and completely run down, and for what?

The ones that you are comparing yourself to are probably comparing themselves to someone else. So it is just a never-ending circle of comparing and stressing and comparing.

Do you really want that?

You will never, and I mean, never, be a true representation of someone else. So be who you are. That is the way it is supposed to be. Don’t think that I am not writing this to myself as much as I am writing this to you.

You’ll get a job. You’ll be successful. You’ll make it. You might not have all that you want right now, and it might seem like others are better than you in some areas. So what. You have something to offer to this world that no one else has, and that is something to be proud of.