COMPARISON TO OTHERS
Sometimes I have fallen into difficult situations because am too ambitious and so fast in achieving everything at once. A year before I joined for my masters in Italy, I had encountered a hard moment when a scholarship I had received from AIMS(African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) -Tanzania floated even after being awarded the offer.
I thought God had finally answered my prayers after I had tried out many applications, this really got me so envious after one of my friends to which they had rejected too(where I was considering moving too in Tanzania) later on was finally sorted out and called to pursue their masters and I was left out.
I was so jealous, with the feeling that I deserved the scholarship too, but that wasn’t the case either.
I pretended to be happy but deep down I was boiling and it became hard for me to believe how the ball had rolled out of my hands. The embarrassing part of it was when I had to confront my work boss (Dr. Charles Kahigiriza-Ndejje senior secondary school) that the scholarship had finally floated and am no longer considering leaving the job. Guys, it was a puzzling moment I had ever encountered in my life. But since my boss was so considerate (since he had been In the academic world and a parent too) he freely understood the situation.
But I later had to forcefully compose myself not to allow the envy to eat me up to drag me from the right path. It was a life-changing moment for me to stop comparing myself to others and to realize that my friend had also put in the work to achieve that reward after all I also have my own timing to success.
The lesson, Through the dark moments of envy and jealousy, find out how you can make the best of your life other than a reflection of someone else’s life. What work can you do to move closer to accomplishing your own goals, maybe you should hustle as hard as you hate?
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