Hey you,

Welcome to the 14th edition of The Life You Want.

Every edition will challenge what you’ve heard.


Enough yapping, lets jump in.

A small story.

Two people sit at the same table.
Same lighting.
Same silence.

Between them lies an old coin.

One person barely looks at it.

“Worthless,” he shrugs.

Too worn.
Too dull.
Not even usable anymore.

The other freezes.

His breath changes.

He asks, carefully, if he can pick it up.

Turns it over.
Thumb tracing the edge.

It’s rare.

Minted in a short window.
Part of a broken series.

To him, this coin isn’t junk.

It’s treasure.

Nothing about the coin changed.
Only the context did.

Value didn’t live in the object.

It lived between the object and the observer.

That’s how most things in this world work.

Money has no value on its own.

It only means something compared to other money.

A salary feels big or small only relative to someone else’s.
A house feels impressive only relative to another.
Status exists only because comparison exists.

Even praise works this way.

“Smart” compared to whom?
“Successful” relative to what?
“Behind” according to whose timeline?

There is no absolute scale being used.

Only reference points.

That’s why the same achievement can feel
like victory one day
and failure the next.

The line didn’t change.

The comparison did.

There’s an old story from the Mahabharata.

Arjuna is asked to make a line smaller without touching it.

So he draws a longer line beside it.

Nothing was removed.
Nothing was damaged.

The line only felt smaller because of what stood next to it.

That’s relative value.

Society is a machine built on relativity.

It doesn’t ask, “What is this worth?”
It asks, “What is this worth compared to others?”

That’s how hierarchies form.

Not because someone gained value,
but because someone else was framed as having more.

That’s why people dim others.

Dimming my light ain’t gonna make yours any brighter.

Chopping your neighbor’s furniture won’t fix yours.

Comparison isn’t truth-seeking.

It’s anxiety management.

When people feel small, they don’t always grow.
Sometimes they just redraw the scale.

But here’s the part we forget:

Society can only assign relative value.
It has no authority over absolute worth.

Absolutely speaking, every human has the same value.

Not metaphorically.
Not spiritually.

But practically.

You are a human being.
So is everyone else.

That’s the baseline.

Everything beyond that — money, influence, intelligence, beauty — is context.

Useful context.
Sometimes necessary context.

But still only context.

Feeling worthless doesn’t mean you are worthless.

It means you’re being measured in a system that benefits from comparison.

And here’s the insight most people miss:

You suffer not because you lack value,
but because you’ve accepted the wrong measuring stick.

Courage isn’t about winning the comparison game.

It’s about seeing it for what it is.

A game.

One that never ends.
One that always shifts the rules.
One where someone else will always be taller, richer, louder, faster.

Courage is choosing not to reduce yourself to a relative position.

It’s remembering your absolute worth
while still participating in the world.

You can grow without competing.
Improve without resenting.
Admire without shrinking.

You don’t need to be the longest line on the page,
to know you exist.

Step out of the comparison long enough
to remember what you are.

A human being.

And that, absolutely speaking,
has never been worth less than anything else on the table

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