1. Don't define yourself by your home or other posessions, define yourself by your values e.g. how you help others. 2. You did not elaborate in your post what

1. Don't define yourself by your home or other posessions, define yourself by your values e.g. how you help others. 2. You did not elaborate in your post what is the reason for your own situation, but having a rental home implies you still have a bank account with a positive balance, even a regular income, so this is is not really "bottom"; and I hope for you that you will never know what "real bottom" means. 3. Rene Girard's main concept is "mimetic theory," which states that most of human behavior is based upon imitation. The imitation of desires leads to conflict, and when a buildup of conflict threatens to destroy all involved, they use a scapegoat to return to balance. Girard is a philosopher that Peter Thiel and some others have been much influenced by. Reading your post reminded me about his theory how people start to fight (like the biblical brothers Cain & Abel) once they start to compare themselves to one another and envy emerges. 4. So ask yourself: before seeing those successful friends/relatives, did you feel good about yourself? Do you have friends that if you had any kind of trouble, would stand by your side? Do you have a loving partner/family? Is there something that you like about your home, perhaps a property that made you decide to rent that one over others at the time? Using such questions you may overcome the habit of comparing purely materialistic matters. 5. I own a house, but I live in a crappy rental home which is walking distance to my work instead. If it helps you, I know some very wealthy people that I would never want to change with. Some have become materialistic, others have become afraid for their safety, and others still have started buying ugly things just to show of status and wealth (pitty for them). I also have some relatives in the U.S. that went from "poor" to "millionaire" via a combination of hard work and luck and then back to "poor" due to bad investment advice. Nobody has ever taken $1 to where they go after they die!