I try to compare myself only to myself; otherwise, I figure I'm comparing apples to oranges?

What would you like to do/think about/read/study or whatever? There's a good old book I like by Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be? http://www.amazon.com/Have-Be-Erich-...dp/0826417388/ which forever changed my thinking when it described how, in the "West" we have to pick pretty flowers but in the "East" they're content to just enjoy them. Wasn't that fast, straight, and direct an argument but made an impression on me such that now I almost feel guilty picking a dandelion or 4-leaf clover :-)

People do what they "want" and that you haven't wanted to get a PhD or be President of some company enough to work at it like someone else has doesn't have anything to do with your "worth." You don't have to "prove" yourself, you "are" like a flower. If you chose you could join the rat race and see how much money, how many cars and houses, etc. you could accumulate but why? Someone would always have more and others would have less. Play your own game. In theory, we're literally the only people in our lives; everyone else just has walk-on parts in our play :-)