Ultimately you need to learn to detach your happiness / unhappiness from external factors. Things that happen in the world just are. We assign values to them a

Ultimately you need to learn to detach your happiness / unhappiness from external factors. Things that happen in the world just are. We assign values to them as good or bad and then tell ourselves to feel a certain way about them, but that part is all in our head. Thing that happen inside our own heads are within our control (barring mental illness). We can decide to look at things a different way and feel differently about them if we want to. If seeing your friends succeed makes you unhappy, would it make you happy to see them fail? If they lost their fancy house and great job and had to live out of their car and beg for food, would you enjoy that? If so, maybe you don't actually like these people if you wish them such bad fortune. I don't consider myself poor (and by any objective measure, I'm not), but I have friends who make more money than I do. I'm grateful for the things I do have. Like I go to the grocery store and buy what I want without looking at prices. Lots of people don't get to do that. I've pretty much never had to be concerned about whether I could fill the gas tank in my car or not. For some people that is a serious struggle. Would I like to buy a giant house with a pool and yard and all that? Sure, maybe someday I will. It's nice that some of my friends can. But there's a lot of good stuff in my life already, too.