Life isn’t a competition. Stop treating it like one.

Let’s get this out of the way early, there is no winning line. There is only a deadline. We expire.

Cheery, I know, and also true. And oddly freeing, if you let it be.

Somewhere along the way, life got turned into a leaderboard. Quietly. Sneakily. Wrapped up in self-improvement language and motivational quotes.

• Who’s doing better.

• Who’s coping better.

• Who’s calmer, fitter, richer, happier, more “evolved”.