EPTEveryone has butts.
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You see, the sole purpose of such an enlightening piece of knowledge is to illustrate the fact that no one is perfect, and everyone has issues. Sometimes, the issues are not apparent when viewed strictly from the outside, the shallow superficial exterior of a man.
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The existential dilemma with analyzing oneself through the diluted lens of self-serving bias risks the danger of running along one of two extremes. The better known view is the concept of illusory superiority, which is rather self-explanatory because one person basically supposes he or she is fundamentally superior in one or several ways compared to persons inhabiting the surrounding environment of oneself.
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The opposing extreme is one involving crippling insecurity and loss of self-esteem. Call this view, if you will, illusory inferiority. This flawed self conception is succintly illustrated in the following example:
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Having obsessive thoughts about the aforementioned mode of reasoning can trigger a sense of learned helplessness, excessive and unnecessary anxiety, and suicidal feelings of worthlessness. Experiencing disabling thoughts of simply not being good enough repels people from you and exudes the overall impression that you disregard the value of your own life.
Situations in which this philosophy is exemplified include:
Girls wearing makeup and competing with other girls based on attractiveness
Guys comparing their muscles and their e-penises
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So you think you're better than me?
Similar scenarios are often caused by the predisposition of humans to competition. However, all too tragically often, humans engage in a kind of pseudo-competition (that is, competing just for its own sake). This may be the case where a person competes with another solely for bragging rights and not any genuine feelings of satisfaction or contentment.
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If you're winning everything, but still feeling empty inside, you're competing for the wrong reasons. The point is to get yourself ahead while maybe helping those who you believe to be conducive to your success, not putting others down.
A wise man once said, we stand and fall as one.
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We empirically seek to rank people based on some objective criteria. And so we experience psychological fatigue from the effort of constantly trying to out-do one another. But does it serve a greater purpose?
Rather, why not develop ourselves to our fullest potentials by actively seeking mutual betterment? We should not fight but instead negotiate by taking the strongest and most valid points from each argument.
For example, these 2 people happen to be arguing, or competing:
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The dialogue, please imagine, might go something like this:
Boy: I hate you!!!
Girl: No, I hate you more!!!
Cue wild and wacky make up sex
As you can see, the positives and benefits of negotiation far exceed the potential benefits of competition and additionally skillfully avoid any pitfalls.
In the end, we are all imperfect beings, even this seemingly perfect angel:
This is because, of course,
WE ALL HAS BUTTS
No one is perfect, we all have things about ourselves that upset us, that we wish we could change, that we have tried to change but have been unseccessful in doing so, whatever. We all wish we could be as hot or intelligent or rich or outgoing as some stranger we see walking down the street, so there's no point in trying to justify your feelings of envy or jealousy as something that is specific to yourself. No matter how confident one appears from the outside, you cannot simply suppose that they are just as confident on the inside. It's true you might never be the absolute undisputable best at anything, but that doesn't mean you should stop doing something you love doing.
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The truth is, we all have a lot more in common than we believe. So why not embrace the commonalities instead of driving ourselves apart over relatively petty differences?
If you're feeling down about being not good enough or worthless, pathetic, and useless then you're going about it the wrong way.
While it's bad to feel too good, unreasonably good, about yourself,
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...it's just as bad to feel too bad, unreasonably bad, about yourself,
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...and because we all have butts, @#$% comes out of that butt, and we all must cleans ourselves at least semi-regularly to ensure that we don't get up to our necks deep in @#$%.
That being said, here's a picture that has nothing to do with anything
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