Just revel in overcoming the unfairness, embrace it. When life sticks a dagger in your side, laugh in its face (or grimace) and prevail anyways. None of that w

Just revel in overcoming the unfairness, embrace it. When life sticks a dagger in your side, laugh in its face (or grimace) and prevail anyways. None of that will erase the pain that stems from being behind your peers in career or romantic pursuits. Speaking from experience, the latter cuts unimaginably deep. You don't get that time back, but the time you do have becomes immensely more valuable. Many will say a comparison basis isn't healthy, but being highly competitive by nature I haven't yet figured out how to avoid that. All I've described is a rather effective coping mechanism; the pain will still exist, but one could say pain is a fundamental part of living life in any real sense. As an anecdote, I used to play a couple games competitively as a hobby. While I was good, I only became an expert once I embraced two things: ridiculous amounts of practice, and the unfairness of it all. Depending on the matchmaking setup, you would be expected to defeat two or even three skilled opponents. Lamenting how unfair it all is would get you nowhere, so the only way forward was to embrace it.