If your life doesn't feel inadequate until you compare it to others, your life rocks. Stop comparing yourself to people who aren't you and just allow yourself to be happy. If, on the other hand, your life feels lousy until you look to others and reassure yourself that at least you haven't got it as bad as that guy, you too need to stop comparing yourself to people who aren't you. Look inwards until you find why you feel lousy, or until you find what makes you feel happy, worthwhile. Make changes. Be brave. But only the changes that make you, well, you. Don't try to be someone else, copy their experience, like what they like. For sure, use people for inspiration, its a great shortcut, and none of us are unique in our preferences, only in the mix of preferences we have. And people you like do often like stuff you might find interesting. But... Only you know what you like. What you want. What you need. And it's probably not that overwhelming list of crap that every one tells you that you must like/do/see.
The article that prompted this ramble is here http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/kicking-the-bucket-list
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