• edryd
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    Envy has existed far longer than social media, none of these things would go away if social media doesn’t exist. Social media just amplifies it.

    Comparison has always been the thief of joy.

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      Yep, “keeping up with the Jones’s” was a phrase I heard growing up in the 1980s

      Also, attachment leads to suffering