I remember the time I first heard the saying, “When you’re born into a burning house it feels like the whole world is on fire.” And I remember thinking, wow. That really hit home. And then later, I saw a video a girl made, where she talked about that saying, where she said, “They say that when you’re born into a burning house it feels like the whole world is on fire, but what if that’s because it is?” And to me, that hit even harder. See, we’re all born into the same world. We all experience different things, good and bad. All of us have felt those flames. And I think, something really big for us, for humanity, is comparison. That constant feeling of needing to put our lives next togethers and point out where we’ve done better, where we’ve done worse, all to result in some sort of emotion from the other, whether it’s sympathy, or awe, jealously, or pity. We compare to get something out of it. We compare our flames to fuel ourselves. And really, that’s the core of humanity, isn’t it? Ourselves. Everything we do and say is, in the end, for ourselves. I can’t tell you that I’m here, right now, speaking these words solely to ignite a fire in the hearts of others. I can’t tell you that I’m not here to win, for the money, for the acknowledgment, for the fame. I can’t tell you that. I, nor nobody else in this world, is completely selfless. Because at the end of the day, you will never truly understand another unless you have literally walked in their shoes. And by that, I mean, lived their life, from to start to finish, just as they had. You felt what they felt, thought what they thought, did what they did. And that’s not possible. At least yet. So, I’m here today to remind everyone this important fact. It doesn’t matter how hot or how high your flames are, there’s still fire. There’s still fire. We still get burnt. And it doesn’t matter how burnt you are, because there are still scars. You can’t claim that your fire, your flames, your burns, are worse unless you have felt the burns of others for yourself. Because in the end, comparison is not healing, is not helping, is not putting out any fire. In the end, comparison is not water. We need water to live. We need water to put out those fires. Comparison isn’t that water. So, when I hear the phrase, “When you’re born in a burning house it feels like the whole world is on fire,” it reminds me. It reminds me that I understand that fire. That my fire isn’t just my fire. That we all share a fire, and some of us are standing right in it, while others are a few feet away. Fire affects us all differently, but how we choose to handle it is what determines our fate. Because you can’t stand two feet from the flames and claim you have it worse than someone who is standing four feet from the flames, because you put yourself there. They put themselves there. You don’t have to burn. Comparing your problems doesn’t make them go away. Sympathy doesn’t heal scars. Just because your flames are hotter doesn’t make anyone else’s flames go away. They’re still there. We share the fire. And only we can decide how close we stand to it.