Did you ever envy someone else's life only to discover it was not what you thought and definitely not what you wanted for yourself?

Did you ever envy someone else's life only to discover it was not what you thought and definitely not what you wanted for yourself?
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For a long time, I envied the lives of my closest friends because I thought they led ideal lives. That was until an outside source pointed out to me that my life is actually a lot more stable than most of theirs.
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