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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I admit, I do get envious. Particularly since I know a lot of folks who seem to have it all (college friend who is a major hedge fund manager and married to another one, they make like  10-20 million a year!!!, others who are just normal very wealthy). If I focused on it, it would eat at me--especially if I focused on all the people I decided didn't 'deserve' all they had.

but you know what? I look around this city, this world, and realize that I am better off than 98 percent of the folks around me. I have decent health,more or less intact family, roof over my head, job and health insurance, not worried about paying for food, medication or other basics, my kids are good, my family has not been damaged by violence or drugs, I have a pretty good chance of growing old and seeing my kids grow up. These are the kinds of worries that do not even cross the mind of most of my peers, and most of the time I take it for granted. But my older kid just started a school with a high FARMS rate and I meet families who have so much less.

so, when I feel the green eyed monster, I deliberately make myself think about how completely random the world is, and how lucky I am. [/quote]

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