the zurkie show - stop comparing your joy to others

Episode Date: December 25, 2025

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Why do I feel like my life is just kind of going around like a hamster and a hamster wheel? I have no joy to give. There's nothing to be happy about in this holiday season. I am tired of everyone. Well, I'm sorry you feel that way. I understand why you do. There's many reasons to, but I don't think that staying in this pit will do you any good. and instead I want to give you a gift.

I actually think you have experienced this gift before, but you've forgotten the wrapping. You've forgotten what it feels like, to hold it into your hands and try to shake it to figure out what's inside. And that is the gift of joy. How do we stay joyful in times where everything feels like it's falling apart? Not just in the world, but in your own individual psyche. I can tell you, I don't feel good.

I feel very stressed. I feel very upset. I feel like, especially during the holidays, I compare myself to everyone around me because I'm around more people and I realize how much of an L I've been taking. But that's the problem. Joy, if you compare yourself to other people,

it will be stolen from you. because other people's circumstances, they don't matter as much as your own. And if you are struggling to make ends meet in your own mind and figuring out how to just exist in your own skin, you have no right worrying about the next person. It's an uncomfortable truth because we want to compare ourselves. That's how we've lived our entire lives. You compare yourself in your test scores, in your grades, in your social dynamics, and your friend groups.

So how do you suddenly tell yourself, no, I'm not going to do any of that? Are you crazy? Oh, Santa's a little crazy. I mean, you know, I deliver presents for a living and I only do it for a certain time in the year. You have to realize that joy is a choice. Being happy is a choice.

And it's not something you need to experience all of the time. I don't think that there's any beauty really and just being optimistically happy every second of the day because sometimes things will suck and you need to admit that in order to process it and go through it. But the more that you just worry about what am I doing, how does it look to other people, instead of just asking yourself, am I happy?

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Love the Way. You're missing the gift. A lot of us, I think, have been manipulated emotionally to believe like we are in the absolute worst part of our lives. And trust me, young individuals now, myself included, have it harder than it once was. Let's not sugarcoat that. But also, what are we going to do? We have to actually start doing something within our...

our own lives to think about having a change in a broader context. And if we're not able to spot the joy and the hope in our own communities, with our own families, with our own friends, how do you expect for people to come together and change the way things are? They won't. They won't. I think that there is a level of hopelessness in this world that has been manufactured, dare I say intentionally so that you do feel dreadful about yourself you do compare yourself to somebody

who's in a first class flight in a suite and they're posting about it and being like oh you know hard work pays off but they're actually a nepo baby it's working as it's designed too and if you use this gift of recognizing the good that you have in your own life you make yourself

detached from any kind of negativity that might try to penetrate you, that might try to manipulate you into doing something or trying to act in a certain way to be more acceptable to other people or to fill a hole within your heart. I know this because this has been my entire life. I have compared myself to everyone in my life, and I sometimes still deal with it.

This Santa Claus has 20 gifts he's given out. Dang, this Santa Claus has 120. What am I doing wrong? It's normal. As a human being, you are prone to compare yourself. It's now the discipline that comes in into realizing, okay, I can look at somebody else. I can compare myself, sure, but I cannot take this personally. I have to realize and be honest with myself, because maybe this comparison is showing me that I have an insecurity, that I don't

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And I think that there is so much opportunity in expressing joy because joy will find the right people that have joy to give back. But if you just believe that your situation, your holidays, your family, it's all cooked and other people have it better, I'm sorry, but you are sadly mistaken.

You have fallen in the trap because that is what people want, you to believe so that you don't feel good about yourself. You don't feel good about the things around you. And I'm not telling you to, you know, Hoff copium, okay? Santa's not telling you that. I'm just telling you that you are better off acknowledging the good things in your life and being very happy about them instead of having this attitude and assuming the worst about people, about situations about yourself. Joy is such a beautiful gift.

And I think that the best way every single one of us can experience it is actually by giving it to other people. It doesn't have to be a gift. I know a lot of us are expecting an iPhone 17. Santa's been working extra hard to make that happen. Or Laboooo, geez. You'd be surprised how many of those I've had on my list.

It's more about a phone call. about a text message, about an exchange and telling somebody that you love them. It's more about making somebody something if you can't afford to get them anything, writing them a letter, expressing your gratitude towards the people that matter in your life. A lot of us do this when it's too late. When somebody is out of our lives, we then realize, wow, we really miss them. On the contrary, sometimes they don't even leave And we never have a chance to tell them how we feel

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and you treat well you will feel the effects of the christmas spirit too many people seem like a grinch these times of years right like too many people i feel like they really do pray on just the positivity because they have it really, really bad. And hey, I get it. We all deal with different circumstances. Some of us are having a goaded Christmas and we're getting a Tesla. And some of us, well, we'll be lucky to get socks from our distant aunt. Regardless of that, the true happiness of the holidays comes from realizing what you have in front of you.

Realizing that if you're spending this with your grandparents, with your parents, they won't be around forever. If you're in your hometown that you have ran away from, it's realizing that one day you won't return here, and it will be all gone from your memory, from your mind, because you will start a life somewhere else with other people. And maybe all of this is corny. Maybe. I'll admit it.

But if you are miserable already, what do you have to lose? If you feel like you have nothing to gain anymore, what hurts with trying? What hurts with just giving it a shot? shot, having some kind of joy, enjoying the small things like a cop of caught cocoa, enjoying the small things like the snow coming down onto your window. There are a lot of things in this life to enjoy Zirky Show, and the gift of joy is here to help you enjoy every single one of them.

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! And happy holidays to all of you at the Zerky Show. I hope you get plenty of gifts, and likewise, if you're trying something new, just know that Santa Claus believes in you. And I'm sending you lots of love and peace.