Swami Mukundananda
Why do I feel unhappy with what I have when others seem to have more?
The monkey and the grape
A monkey was perfectly happy with its cucumber until it saw another monkey being given a grape, and then it threw the cucumber away. We are always comparing, and this comparison is stealing our joy. Today it has moved online as the fear of missing out.
Until the monkey saw that the other monkey was being given a grape. Then it got so annoyed that it took the cucumber and threw it, though it had been perfectly happy before.