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5 facts that can impact your happiness

This is the fourth article in a series where I explore why we compare ourselves to others and share five key facts that can impact your happiness, emotions, thoughts, and daily life.

My childhood and teenage age occurred before the smartphones and social media boom. I was so happy living in my little town bubble and not being exposed for stimuli from all over the world to waver my self-esteem.

Happily, I did not know how many of my peers were fighting for career too, how many people worked even harder than me and how many had a lot more success.

But the world changed and my bubble exploded 🤯

Today we are living in different world full of traps. Every day we have possibility to observe how the whole world is having enormous competition for attention and appreciation. This is a new reality, unprecedented in previous centuries.

Social media is one of the main factors generating a huge amount of frustration and low esteem.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt jealous or a sting in your chest when someone landed a job at your dream company or when a friend won awards in a competition you hoped to win.

Sometimes, instead of feeling happy for someone, your mood gets worse. Don’t worry—you’re only human! 😆

Do not feel guilty for it! Everybody experiences this!

Jealousy is a difficult emotion and thanks to social medias we are exposed to manage with it several times a day. If we do not learn to overcome these feelings, we can easily turn envy into workaholism and mental disorder as depression or anxiety.

To get rid of the feeling of constant competition with the whole world, the easiest way will be to make social media detox or unfollow the accounts that make you feel constantly jealous or unhappy.

To understand better about comparison and jealousy, read my post “Is comparison the same as jealousy?”

In my next article, I’ll share more key facts that can impact your happiness when comparing yourself to others. Subscribe to this newsletter so you don’t miss any updates!

See you next week!