Taking someone else’s seat

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I’m sat here writing this at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris waiting for my flight to London.

Watching people queueing to board, scurrying by to their gate, sitting patiently in chairs awaiting their departure.

What if we could take someone else’s seat, take their boarding pass and go to their destination and life. Swap our life for someone else’s. After all, many of us compare with others and wish we were like someone else, wish we had their life.

So in another person’s life would you do things differently or would you end up the same you? Would this new opportunity enable you to be free and live without fear, as after all, it’s not your life?

The thing is we can do all the things in our own lives if we choose, the same as others can within their own. No need to swap, no need to compare to others.

We don’t need to look to what others might have, simply look at what we have.

Swapping for others will leave us in the same position, being held back by ourselves. No one has it better or worse, they just make different choices that lead to different results.

Don’t take someone else’s seat as you already have one of your own.

Perspective

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There is a default position whereby we feel like that only bad things happen to us and life isn’t fair.

That our life sucks and we don’t have what others have.

Comparisons with others only seem to go one way, why do we only seem to look for people ‘better off’ in our minds?

Surely, a sense of perspective would show us that there are people ‘better off’ and there are people who are suffering and a lot ‘worse off’ than us.

Better perhaps to stop comparing with other people at all.

Life teaches us that better or worse off are very subjective and in reality with the right perspective we can all have amazing lives, it’s just a question of your perspective and how you choose to see things.