Have you ever noticed that we spend a lot of time comparing our journey's to everyone else's?

In this slightly unusual expedition through the mushroom kingdom, we explore why life isn't a race and why we're all traveling with different vehicles, different challenges and different starting points.

Some people seem to have sports cars. Some of us appear to be travelling by slightly confused buses. And occasionally life throws a blue shell when we're finally beginning to make progress.

Perhaps arriving differently doesn't mean we're failing , perhaps we're simply on our own track.

A reflective (and mildly chaotic) journey through Mario, comparison, self-acceptance and the strange ways we measure ourselves against others.

Emotional blue shells included.

Why do we keep finding ourselves in the same situations, relationships, reactions and patterns, even when we promised ourselves we'd do things differently?

In this episode of The Strange Files, we explore the familiar cycles we can find ourselves trapped in, why the brain prefers the known over the healthy, and how awareness can interrupt the endless rinse-and-repeat programme.

Featuring reflective nonsense, strange analogies and the possibility that life may occasionally resemble an emotional washing machine.

Warning: May cause unexpected self-awareness and a sudden urge to stop dating the same personality in different outfits.

What if the problem isn't what's on your plate....But believing you have to take everything? A reflective spiral through overconsumption, capacity, endless refills and the surprisingly human psychology hiding inside an all-you-can-eat buffet.