Comparisonitis: The Debut Writer’s Disease

Mary Hargreaves
5 min readJan 27, 2020

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My morning routine is always the same. Whether it’s Tuesday, Friday or Sunday, I begin each day by padding, zombie-like, into the kitchen, making a large coffee, dumping myself on the sofa and watching the news. I wake up an hour early just to experience this moment of me-time before the rush of the day begins.

But I don’t really watch the news. I glance at it, occasionally, when a…

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