Since the evolution man has tried his best to understand the nature around him, to make sense out of everything. Comparing things with one another formed an easy way to comprehend the matter. But we as Indians seem to far more specialize in it. Comparing forms an essential activity of our daily life, so much so that it forms an axle around which our life revolves.
The educational system in India has a great contribution in it; we take a sense of pride in ranks. Children get ranks in schools; parents push their children to get good rank, because good grades are not enough. Newspapers publish rankers in state and national exams each year; how many of them later become successful in life is a different matter! But the best part is that the schools and educational institutions are now themselves being ranked against one another. The devil has started eating itself!!
Ranking or comparing is not bad in itself. It becomes grave when we start comparing what we should not. We compare ourselves with our friends and peers; we compare our salary, our work and designation, our house and car and we don’t even spare our spouse and children. This is when misery arrives.
Each one of us, each of the things around us is different and special in its own way, comparing reduces the importance and uniqueness of it; it kills the spirit of matter.
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