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How do I stop comparing myself to someone online?
Posted by on August 26, 2025 at 9:24 amI work in IT, but to be honest I feel bored, stressed, and stuck working fully remote. I’m single, and most of my free time ends up going into social media and gaming.
There’s a girl I don’t actually know personally, but we’re from the same background and work in the same industry. I found her profile online and, not trying to be creepy, I do find her beautiful despite never meeting her. She seems to have everything I don’t — a good career, travelling, big social circle, always out with friends. I’ve even gone as far as looking at her family’s and friends’ profiles if she’s tagged in their photos.
I know this isn’t healthy, but it’s become a weird cycle for me. It feels like I’m comparing my life to hers and almost living through her updates instead of focusing on my own.
How do I break this habit? Do I need professional help, or are there practical steps I can take on my own?
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I totally get it ive gotten stuck on this cycle too especially when theyre closer to you and more integrated into ur life. The best way I dealt with this was genuinely muting or even going so far as to block them rather to stop the impulse to compare. And tho it might not sound healthy AT FIRST focusing on your life and acting as if youre them, their confidence, social media presence, life whatever, not straight up copying but integrating ur own personality helps. It gives you a kind of motive to work on and during the process you’re working on ur own life rather than this persons. Ask yourself why you like them so much, you did this already by saying she travels a lot and has a big social circle. Obviously this seems like such a big thing but you can find your own way to be like this through going out and pursuing hobbies or activities you like and finding people there.
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I totally get. I hate Instagram for this reason because it crushed me. A girl I personally know went to US and started traveling with some rich guy while I live in a 3rd world sub saharan swamp country. Mind you I used to be her close friend and we once kissed and I had her close into my arms.
My lowest moment was when I waiting in line for a cheap meal that cost like 0.3 USD in a dusty super crowded place in a scorching sun and I get a notification from Instagram that says she posted a story and when I open it, it is a picture of her in intercontinental hotel with some guy in the background and the tag location says Los Angeles. And the rest of the picture is her having fun in LA. It was a punch to my heart and I didn’t even know what to do, so I sat on the side of the street and just took it all in, when I was about to stand up a donkey came and shit on the street in front of me. I cried and uninstalled Instagram. Life is not fair
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Cut the stimulus, you won’t get anything good out of looking at these things.
Make a plan for your goals, so that there is no idle time and you always feel like you are doing the best you can for yourself.
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people don’t show the bad online.
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