At carnivals/fairs, it always seems like everyone else is Winning giant teddy bears except you. I have tried to dispel this notion by pointing out that we don't notice the hundred others who don't win anything but keep walking by without attracting our attention. And looking at the much smaller subset of winners lugging around their huge prizes creates an inflated and incorrect perception.

The equivalent of this in our daily lives is social media. There are a few that generously share every moment of their lives. And those moments accompanied by Hallmark-style captions make us wonder if somehow we are living lesser lives, because "everyone else" seems to be making the most of theirs. Need to remember this is a fraction of people in my friend list, and even those people may only be shining the light on the brightest part of their lives.

But then, maybe that's something to learn from them - to celebrate wins more, and make ourselves feel happy about the moments we are blessed with, without bringing a weighing scale and ruining the fun.