Comparing your life to someone’s feed means leaving the room you’re in to stare at one that’s been edited.

Comparison always runs on uneven information. You know everything about your own day, including the dull and embarrassing parts, and you know only the chosen moments of somebody else’s. Put those side by side and yours loses every time, not because it is worse but because it is complete. Meanwhile the room you are actually in goes unattended while you study a better-lit one.

When you catch yourself mid-scroll feeling behind, turn the phone face down and name three things in the room you are sitting in. It is not a trick. It returns your attention to the place you can affect.