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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you’re splitting people into artificial and simplistic categories: “lonely, awkward, brown-nosing strivers” vs. “fun, social, successful partiers with hot spouses.” But humans aren’t binary like that. People have the capacity to be many things concurrently, and to display a multiplicity of strengths (and flaws) across different settings and different moments in time.

It also seems reeeeally important to you to believe that your children have somehow “won,” as if life is some sort of game, wherein if you just make the right moves, you can end up on top. But OP, life is complex, and it’s bumpy, and there’s not a human alive who won’t face disappointment, heartbreak, setbacks, and fear. I wish that weren’t true, but here we all are.

If your kids are happy and satisfied right now, I’m happy for them, and for you. But I recommend holding onto all this loosely, without clinging to any particular narrative about who/what they are, or what they have. Life is long, and it’s unpredictable, and binary thinking rarely helps a person in the long term. [/quote]

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