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[quote=Anonymous]OP -- totally get where you are coming from.  I've realized as an adult that those stories of nerds inheriting the earth or what have you are the stuff of adolescent mythology.

There were several girls I envied terribly while growing up -- they seemed to have it all (looks, popularity, brains, great family).  They weren't mean, but I really really wanted their lives.  Well, 20 years later and pushing 40 years old, none of them are married and have never had kids.  Not that that is bad, but not what I would have wanted for myself.  Not sure what my point is with that story except that I shouldn't have wasted all that time 25 years ago wanting to be someone else.  I now have the life I want and am very happy.

The other thing I've learned is that you have NO idea what is truly going on in other people's lives.   There's a woman I know who was kind of what you described -- beautiful, thin, hot husband, wealth, yadayada yada and also a complete bitch.  I didn't know her very well but well enough to know that it didn't seem fair that she had that perfect life.  Well turns out she's now getting divorced and life sucks for her.  And yeah, I know it's totally adolescent, but I was so happy to hear it!

That being said, I remember reading a fortune that said something like "instead of worrying about what you want that you don't have; be thankful for what you don't have that you don't want."  Good advice that I and you should take!

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