It makes no sense to be compared with anyone in the aspect of excellence, whether they are better or poorer than you. Moreover, the same applies to comparison with yourself: it is more often than not a fallacy that with hard graft, inevitably you push forward. However, does it utterly prove that to struggle should be deemed futile in life?
Whenever I am writing articles on the computer, I am sitting on a stable chair with my whole body relaxed in stability. This is my posture when I am “at work.” Apparently I cannot do this easily when I stand. In like manner, struggle is just the posture of life. No matter for livelihood or for ambition, there is never an “escape route” that a person can adopt to avoid hardships. Once you recognize struggle as a posture instead of a price, it will spontaneously become the backbone that supports your tenacity, even though any pursuit doesn’t assure its realization.