Can you be happy if somebody gives you a small camera as a gift? Of course!
But not really. If you get a small camera, but the rest of the people in the room are all given a top-flight DSLR camera, you’ll probably be kind of upset.
However, if you get that same small camera but everyone else gets a pack of gum, you feel great.
I am sure that I’d fall into this trap and all of us probably would. The question is then, how can we be happy with what we get, what we have, and what we give completely independent of what those around us are doing or what they get?
Can we be truly content with what we have and where we are? Yes, we can and yes we must. Resist looking at others and longing after what they have, it’s the most destructive thing I can think of at this moment.