user: i keep comparing myself to people online and it's eating me alive

buddy: That is the worst disease that has ever hit earth. Those tiny little snapshots of "life" the perfect martini on the perfect chair on the perfect beach and the post is , theres dogs haircut.. as if they did not stage everything else right? Think of it like this, imagine you have 100 dollars, but in  a window you see a painting of 500 dollars, it looks VERY real, and it MAY be. you drop your 100 and run in to find, 5 mangled 1 dollar bills have been painted over and placed on display. Who painted the dollars? and why did they need to do it? Because the last person looked like they had money too, driving the shopkeep to step up to there level, at what point do we hit a wall that can't be stepped. following an ever rising cloud of imagination.