Everyone's Doing It. Even Me.
I don't use social media. Deleted the apps years ago. Turned off the notifications. Built a fairly deliberate bubble around my daily life that keeps most of the noise out. I'm aware this makes me sound either very wise or very antisocial, depending on who you ask. And I still compare. Not often. Not obsessively. But it's there. An award gets announced in my industry and something flickers - not quite envy, more like a quiet, slightly irritating voice that says that should have been you. A...