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 There is a famous proverb in English. "The grass is always greener on the other side", meaning, something that you say that means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you, although they may not be So basically, we compare ourselves with others and the end result is we feel that the others are better than us. Which is hardly ever true.

About that... Isn't it the opposite at times? What I'm trying to say is that sometimes people think that the things they do are amazing. And that's okay! But they also think that no other person than themselves can do that thing as amazing as they have done. Suppose I have........... written an essay. At least 5 more people I know have written one too. If I think according to the proverb, I'll think that the other 5 have probably written their essays much better than I have. Comparison at work. But there is a big chance that I will think that my essay must be much better than theirs'. 

It's the perspective that matters. I even wrote a poem about it - Perspective, check it out!!

We have to be positive, but if there is some kind of meter,

Negative, Pessimistic  Positive, Optimistic  A little too positive    Ego-boosting positive

it should be like this. If you've observed the four perspectives above, you'll notice that we start with red. Red is said to be a kind of negative color, therefore it stands for negativity above. Then yellow for positivity, it is also said that yellow is a bright, mellow and happy kind of a color. Then we go to orange. I've depicted orange to be inching towards red, as once it includes a little white, red becomes orange. So, orange is somewhere in between good and bad. Then we've come back to red. What I'm trying to say is that excess positivity can be harmful, but nothing can be more harmful than the ego boosting one. According to what I'm thinking, ego boosting positivity is something that you do in order to not only please yourself but give yourself your very own throne of superiority. 

watercolor grass

And I've landed back onto the main topic. The opposite of the above proverb is surprisingly negative too. The proverb's meaning is not a lovely one, right? The proverb is an example of our insecurity. And usually, the insecure people guise their insecurities by applying a coat of the "I'm always right and everything I do is absolutely perfect" attitude.

This attitude can be very harmful as indirectly, you hide your very own identity. If I talk on this topic a little more, I may jump to peer pressure, but I feel as if every single post in this blog has something related to it no matter what.

The main summary of everything I've written until now is that we should never underestimate or overestimate ourselves. ना कम ना जादा is the best way to say that. 

If anybody has read this, thank you so much! Have a great day (or night, afternoon, evening, it depends on the time you're reading this)

References: Cambridge Dictionary, for the meaning of the proverb