I have some friends who love to compare salaries and bonuses. It started off with curiosity, wanting to know how each other is doing, then becomes envy when they realise they are getting less than the others. The envy then becomes frustration and resentment because they feel that they are not paid what they deserved. Sometimes, the comparison can be across different companies, which I feel makes the comparison more biased. What started off as a happy thing, like receiving a bonus, slowly evolve to be an unhappy thing when we don't find contentment in what we are blessed with.
We are all blessed in different ways, getting less pay or bonus does not mean we are less fortunate than others. If one cannot find contentment, one will never be happy, no matter how much one is given. Some people are big earners but they are also big spenders. Some people are poor but they are happy. Happiness is not a measure of how much we have, but rather how contented we are with what we have :)
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