We are constantly under all sorts of comparisons 

on both academic and career fronts; 

as much as it is quite inevitable, 

it is most definitely not all that life has to offer. 

Surely, with competitions come improvements, 

yet the one single person we ought to be weighed against 

is ourselves, 

for being able to grow and make progress is amply sufficient. 

Not to mention, it is only when we stop measuring ourselves against others 

that we can wholeheartedly be engrossed in our own tasks