KEEP THIS IN MIND

Just a quick reminder here : we should stop comparing our lives to others.  Especially now, on Christmas time, when we are pressured to have an amazing time and be happy all the time. Expectations are so high on Christmas day that it rarely comes true. I think Christmas along with New Years and Birthdays are the most overrated days of the year. These days are great, of course, but expectations for these days are a little too high.

All of the Christmas movies, blogs, videos, social media create this idea of people having perfect Christmas, perfect lives. Which in my opinion is rarely true. It‘s so easy to expose just the happiest, the prettiest parts of your life online and hide everything which is not so glittery. And that‘s perfectly fine, it‘s so much easier for everyone – for the ones who read and the ones who post things like that. The only problem is that it becomes so easy to compare your life to others. And I think everyone knows that comparing your life to others just makes you feel miserable and sucks all of the happiness out of your life. We also keep on hoping to have this perfect Christmas with so much snow, big and happy family sharing Christmas meals, having lots and lots of presents, having fun all the time and so on which so often don't happen. But it‘s so easy to forget that all these people online who have „perfect“ lives are exactly like everyone else of us – with disappointments, with hopes that don‘t come true, with heartbreaks, with lost friendships, stresses, etc.

I‘ve read this amazing post here the other day and I love love this quote ''I hope you don't compare real life to an edited one.''

 It‘s SO true. We forget this thing so often. No one has a perfect life, no one is happy all the time. And this is so important to remember because it stops us from feeling miserable and disappointed. What we should do is try to count our blessings not the other way. Because it‘s so easy to get lost and forget all amazing things everyone of us have and concentrate on the negative. It never gets you anywhere, it just make you sad. So everyone should lower the expectations and should start appreciating all the things they have just a little more. Christmas should be a happy time and we still should enjoy it to the fullest. And I just hope that everyone reading this is happy now and if not, I'd just like to remind that probably everyone has things to be grateful for and when You keep that in mind it becomes easier to be happier!