— Theodore Roosevelt
The Context
Widely attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. President — a warning about measuring your life against everyone else’s.
David’s Take
Comparison does not only steal joy, it steals attention. Every minute spent measuring your rebuild against someone’s highlight reel is a minute you did not spend on your own.
What People Get Wrong
It does not mean never look at others. It means do not let their chapter twenty shame your chapter two.
How It Applies to Rebuilding
Rebuilding is slow and unglamorous. Comparison whispers that you are behind. You are not behind — you are on a different road.
Journal Prompt
Whose life have you been using as a measuring stick — and what changes if you put it down?
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