We all have one friend that we can't compare ourselves with because they are earning better than us, sometimes we might be doing the same business but they are better at things we do than us. Some of us find it difficult to accept that our friend is doing better than us so we create some level of competition with ourselves and this our friend might not know. While he is living his truth by doing things his comfortable with and buying things he can afford to buy we choose to do what he is doing or do more in the long run.
Some of the facts about life are that not all competition makes us better. In Africa where people take parties seriously some people borrow money to celebrate their party just to impress their friends. This set of people will tell you to fake it till you make it and live this fake life at the expense of saving money or investing money that will help them in the nearest future. We see them make millions of naira every year but they still borrow to survive just to live a life that is not sustainable.
Don't rush
Making friends with somebody richer is not bad but trying to convince them that we're of their standard is a wrong move. How do you want your rich friends to help you when you are spending more than them at every given opportunity that is why people say that living a fake life is more expensive than living a normal life because nobody will be willing to help you. We have created the belief of what we are not in people's heads and making help so hard to get.
What people don't understand is that as we are trying to impress people it is easy to spot the lies and when the lies are spotted those people we are trying to impress with our lies will be the first to leave us. Living our truth makes everything easier and better.
Conclusion
If you don't make money like them don't spend like them, and avoid any forms of competition that will put pressure on you on spending all your savings and push you also to borrow money. Sometimes we are enemies and living a fake life or a life that is not sustainable for us will put pressure on us and most time we won't gain anything from it.