One fatal mistake we all make is to compare our cores with other people’s shells.
You are intimately familiar with your struggles, your fears, your failings: this is your core. This is the real you.
You are not intimately familiar with the struggles, the fears,, and the private failings of most others. Occasionally you may catch a glimpse, but most of the time, what you see of other people is simply a shell.
Shells are fragile. They break when the egg falls from the spoon, when the juggling act gets out of control, when the carton is overturned. But usually, the break behind closed doors.
You are more than a shell: you are the whole egg, the messy middle, the runny yolk and the goopy whites. You are all the promise contained inside.
Right now, somebody else is comparing their own messy yolk to your smooth brown shell.
We cannot compare apples to oranges; cannot compare eggs to shells. But it is unlikely that you will ever truly know a person’s egg, which means comparison is inaccurate and unnecessary.
Instead of staring out at shells, look inside.