Comparison

We usually compare to others in what we think of them ideally not for who they really are. We tend to idealize our role models and take out all their flaws and bad characteristics to exaggerate the good ones. So when we want a role model to follow, we put ourselves far away from our progress.

Plato might help us in this, because he used to be frustrated about the imperfect and finite world: the things that we want don’t last enough or we break them and so they are useless or the magic is lost because we see the person for who they really are: flawed. So he realizes that the perfect idea in our head is better than in real life, and our life will tend to be perfect if we only focus on the good things.

We are prey of our own ideas instead of focusing in the reality of the things we want to achieve; we tend to make it harder and difficult to realize it is possible if we start now and everyday.

Less platonic views and more realistic actions that will help us achieve our goals day by day, with the good, the bad and the ugly. The rest depends on us in what we want to take to make our lives better.