<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Quit assuming others have it better, or you have... > {{Quit assuming others have it better, or you have it worse. Everyone suffers tremendously in life.}} It's rude to belittle someone's suffering, thinking yours is greater. Don't judge someone's suffering as better or worse. A painful life can be lived brightly, because pain gifted that person with great perspective and wisdom. An average and easy life can be its own kind of tragedy; suffering a mundane deadness. A great life can spoil under its great fortune. It's hard having nothing. It's hard having everything. It's hard. {{Suffering is very personal and cannot be measured by someone from the outside. Everyone suffers in different ways. Life is not a suffering contest; the contest is for compassion.}} We all suffer, and for that reason we need to act with compassion toward others and ourselves. We need to love ourselves. {{Love softens the hardest edges of life's tumult.}} **Source:** [[books/Simple Reminders Book (2014-2018)|Simple Reminders]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->