My Situation is Different… The Trap of Self-Pity and Self-Sabotage
We were from the same town. We went to the same school. We moved abroad, to the same city. We were working in the same profession, with the same title. But over the years, our situations couldn’t be more different: I had ten times his savings, I had traveled the world twice over, I had bought a house in a place I loved, and was paying less in mortgage than he was in rent, in an area of the city he disliked. We were worlds apart. Every piece of advice or encouragement I’d try to share would be met with the same answer: “My situation is different.” ...