I want you to take a minute and look at yourself. Like really look. Look at your fingerprints, your eyes, even just the sound of your voice and laughter. In all the years that human kind has existed, there has never been a person like you. There may have been people who look similar to you-you may even be a twin or triplet. But there is no one really, truly like you.

You are so unique, so perfectly you- and yet you're constantly trying to be someone else.

It could be just trying to have clothes more like so-and-so, or just wishing you were a bit thinner, your hair a little longer, your financial status a little better... No matter what, you are always comparing yourself to someone else.

We've all been there. (I know I have).

But here's the thing: when you're constantly comparing your real life with the "perfect" Instagrammable life, you completely downgrade the awesome things you do have because your reaching after something unattainable.

You give up what's right in front of your for something not even there

And all that leads to is disappointment.

It doesn't matter if you're reaching for the better grades your classmate has, the better body that fitness model has, or the perfect relationship the fictional tv show couple has- all I can say is you'll never be happy with what you have or do attain yourself if you keep chasing after everyone else's life.

Your life is awesome.

Your life is unique.

You are unique.

So don't ignore your own wonderful uniqueness because you get distracted by someone else's for the wrong reasons. We were made to embrace our differences and to encourage and appreciate everyone else's. If we were all the same it would get pretty boring pretty fast.

(I mean seriously there are movies about this.)

Perhaps learning to love your own life means taking a social media cleanse. It could be making a list of all the people who you love (and who love you as well) and seeing how blessed you are. It could be praying for a heart change, learning to appreciate the little things, or even just staring up at the sky, positively reflecting on your life and the great things it contains (not to mention the great things the future holds).

I guess my final word of advice would simply be this: Next time your walking to class and see that person, the one who has the perfect life, remember that to someone else you have the perfect life. Appreciate the different things that others have been blessed with and can use, while also remembering that you have been blessed too. It is a balance of loving and treasuring yourself and your life while not ignoring the great things in other peoples' lives.

And once you can learn to appreciate instead of compare, you'll find you can look at life in a whole new perspective and break free from the "comparison trap".