Two things: The first step to happiness is not comparing yourself to others. You will ALWAYS be able to find something in the people around you to envy and you

Two things: The first step to happiness is not comparing yourself to others. You will ALWAYS be able to find something in the people around you to envy and you will NEVER be happy. This second one may not be helpful in your current state of mind, but has always helped me focus on the first point. That is: in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter. 50,000 years from now it's likely that NOBODY from our current times will be remembered. The guy who wrote rollercoaster tycoon definitely will not be. Someone as infamous as Hitler is a solid shmaybe and that's only if the human race continues to advance technologically and start settling the universe. If we don't go extinct and we don't make it off this planet, the odds are good we'll have driven ourselves back to the stone ages, at which point nobody will remember or care about any of us. So from that perspective, who cares? Just be kind to others, do things you enjoy, and try to be a productive member of society (whatever that means to you).