How do I stop being envious of others / comparing myself to others?
As the title suggests, I feel envious towards others often times. I notice it’s mostly just with people in my age group (I’m 15 so like 14-19). It’ll be anyone, but especially friends of mine and even my best friend sometimes. It makes me feel like a horrible person and friend to feel this way, cause then it feels like my supportiveness for them is not genuine. And overall, I tend to compare myself to others for all sorts of reasons: looks, money, clothes, lifestyles, who their friends with, what they have, how they appear on social media, etc. It’s ironic, because many of my friends and even many of the people I follow deem me very cool and even would complain they didn’t have things or qualities that I have (I’ve been several times to my face). I hate feeling this way, because not only does it make me feel shameful and horrible, but I feel like I’m wasting my energy focusing on what others have. I think what gets me the most is seeing others with friends and being praised for their looks and styles. I have friends, and a best friend as I said before, but I don’t really hang out with anyone. My best friend and I hang out every now and then, but even she has other friends that I don’t really know about, and it makes me feel jealous she has this whole other life I’m not really apart of (we go to different schools, yet we’re still very close). I’ll try focusing on myself, by doing things like working out, listening to music I like, doing hobbies I like, deleting Instagram (though I’ll just redownload it like an hour later), etc. I just want to stop feeling this way. What are some ways I can work on this to stop feeling envious of people and be happy with who I am and confident in all that I have?