Great advice. I sometimes get trapped in that same place. It’s hard to shake that feeling that I don’t measure up to my friends or my family or even just my own judgments. 

hermitologist:

This is spot-on. Well said, Mr. Buckley.

“The only people that I’ve never heard complain about where they are in life, are the ones that have completely given up on that pattern that I’m judging myself against.”

(Source: letter26)