How good are you than others ?

The thought came into my mind when my neighbour gave my example to his son (in a positive way of course) and this made me realize that am I actually good enough to set an example to others ? because I myself know how good and how bad I am ! on a contrary I guess everyone of us was compared to others in some way or the other, either in academics, sports, social behavior or etiquettes, etc. etc..

Well, throughout my life I was compared with many people, for instance I was compared to someone for my mathematics' skill, or my memory skills or my cricketing skills! people always questioned me whether I could dance, sing, play guitar like others do, I had no answer,t I still have no answer ;P

But I take this in positive way, not by learning those things but by thinking that, they say it because they know, I have certain things that they don't possess and they are trying to overshadow me...this actually makes you feel good, it builds a kind of undefined confidence which cannot be explained.....

What I feel is everyone has that 'a class apart' quality! Its just a fact of the matter that most of this qualities are common to many. The difference is the people who gets compared, doesn't know their quality/ies. . . . . . . .

But not always you have to think that you are better than others sometimes the comparison is for your good, its for motivating you to take up something.....I know you people didn't got this one...let me put this in this way, suppose that you are good in cooking and you are compared for your mathematics' skills, then you should not think what I mentioned above, instead you should try to raise your level, or raise your game (...in my words).

What I have noticed in two decades of my life (I know its too less to be a pundit) is that people tends to either go overconfident or become depressed on being compared for non-sense stuff..

you ought to have faith in yourself than anyone else....

When I complained this to my grandfather regarding such comparison, he just told me one thing...Its upto a person that whether he wants to listen such things or make it fall on deaf ears...he meant if you let such speculations affect you it might be positive or negative but if you don't you end up being on neutral side....If you ask me I'll choose the later option, not because I don't have guts to face it, but because I believe that such things affect more negatively than positive....there is a saying that if you sit on a poker table you end up losing more than winning...

So, the moral of the story is, believe in those who believe in you and try and be true to yourself, atleast !

Cheers !!