there will always be people who are better than we are. If we start comparing ourselves with those people, agonizing over how we think we’re nothing compared with them, we’ll be completely paralyzed. But when you say goodbye to all your unnecessary things, you also say goodbye to the process of comparing yourself with other people. After all, you no longer have any of those material objects that are used to compare your status with others’. And once you are a minimalist who only has what you need, your focus will inevitably shift from others to yourself. Freed from comparing, you’ll start to
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