As we grow up, we intentionally leave behind traditions that don't suit us. We might reject holidays, rituals, belief systems, and even language that we grew up with.

But we carry something with us our whole lives that our parents unknowingly gift us: the habit of comparison. And we'll abandon the rituals that seem outdated, but we won't abandon the outdated comparison scripts.

So we move through our lives measuring ourselves against others, weighing our joy, our success, our worth against someone else's story.

In this episode I share a story of something I observed at a park that got me thinking about when and why we start comparing ourselves and our lives to those around us.