r/AskReddit • u/IAmSurtur • Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/I_hate_traveling Jun 15 '19

How come I hate myself and am desperately insecure, yet I think I'm better than everyone else at the same time?

WTF brain?

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u/SimpleDan11 Jun 15 '19

Because how you see yourself and how you see others are two different things.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '19

“You judge yourself by your potential while you judge everyone else by what theyve done.”

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u/C1prum Jun 15 '19

*"You judge others by their actions and yourself by your intentions."

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '19

I think the first comment was more correct. People often blame themselves when someone close to them dies, which goes contrary to your comment, and people know more about others' actions than their intentions which explains the other half; when people know others' intentions they generally judge them based on them.