How do you cope with envy?

I’ve always struggled with comparing myself to my friends and what they could afford growing up and what we looked like, what we dressed like…now it’s gone to the next level of comparing spouses and families. Sometimes it leads me into dark rabbit holes snd I don’t like it. :/

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I think that you have to rationalise it. It's a futile exercise. You go round in circles and end up right where you started. It is not in our gift to have all things. Some will have more, some will have less. Some will appear to have more while actually having less. What you see from the outside doesn't tell the whole story either.

Ultimately, time spent agonisting over what others have is time wasted. Focus on yourself. You have but one life and you are the only one who can make something of it.