Every time we make a comparison between our life and the life of someone else we are actually to some degree living someone else’s life. We are creeping out of our life into theirs. Straying into someone else’s life and out of ours may seem innocuous, relatively harmless, yet it can be very damaging to our own life and potentially deadly to our relationship with others as well. Even if we don’t see the effect as dramatically as we would with an auto accident, the damage is done nonetheless. Judging our lives by the standards of another or vice versa does us no good, because there isn’t an exact equality of capabilities, living conditions, past causes, social context, family background…and on and on the list could go.