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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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twistedrope · 26-30, M
I guess... I tell myself. Don't try be someone else, everybodies taken.

Everyones got their own worries, I tried my best.

Sometimes I'm bothered my effort isn't rewarded that well nor my planning. I get bothered. I don't begrudge myself wanting more. In that same breath, I just tell myself if I want to get something, it'll take planning and execution on my own.

But most importantly, I decide my own path and don't let it be tainted by others decisions. If I can't find a good reason to want somethong, I let it go as immaterial. If there is good functional reason to own something, I add it to the list.

If something I want Im going to only use it twoce or less a year, I would rather have the empty space. Just try to value empty space as a good relaxer and decompressor to your mind and body I think makes owning things a lot easier and buying less frequent.