small things that can bring you joy

Perhaps the wisest of all Theodore Roosevelt s sayings was this: Comparison is the thief of joy. In this modern world saturated with social media outlets, the former president s words ring truer than ever. The more time you spend reading soandso s relationship status updatesor clicking through photo albums of somebody else s trip around the world, the more time you re spending zeroed in on the things other people have, or appear to have, that you don t.