Advice

The most important advice (and most repeated) I've been given is to not compare myself to others. So far I haven't been able to conquer this task but it's always one that has stuck to me. I have self-esteem issues that bring me down a lot. Whenever I get criticized or reprimanded I feel my heart sink and feel like an utter failure in life. It's usually just downhill from there. Then I look at my friends and family around me and see all the people that love them and all their accomplishments and I feel myself comparing myself to them. I always ask "what am I doing wrong that isn't making my life as successful or as happy as theirs?" I'm hoping someday this advice will just hit me one day and I can be like "Yay! I don't care that that person is so much more talented and popular than me!" (It could happen). But until then I'll just try harder and harder to prove myself a success.