[rKarpinski]

> What's harder, to become the best tennis player of your neighborhood or the best tennis player on the planet?

>> When I was twelve, I used to roller-skate in circles for hours [...] One Saturday, a friend invited me to roller-skate in the park. I can still picture her in green protective knee pads, flying past. I couldn’t catch up, I had no technique. There existed another scale to evaluate roller skating [...] Soon after, I stopped skating.

Seems like the author struggled with comparison before the internet, like the grandfather comment said.