Life is going decent, I have a decent job, with a great work environment and not a bad wlb, good enough pay, i give time to my family, I have a few close friends and things are stable. I should be happy, shouldn't I? And I am for a bit, but I see people earning way more, doing great in career/academia and i feel like, have i settled for average? During school I was like an exceptional kid, teachers/parents all used to be hyped up about me, my studies/career, but it all faded away slowly.
I know everyone has a different path in life, different experiences, different destinations, and I am the one telling this to others when other people cry about comparing others (great) life with theirs (they think miserable). I earn good enough for a fresher, most of my friends/people around me, earn less than what I invest every month, and I am not boasting about it, I am very grateful for it, and I have worked really hard and gone through a lot of shit to get here. But then I see people earning double than me, working at a bigger organisation, living luxuriously, having a great romantic relationship, and then I feel I failed. I know it's a good motivation to work hard and be there, but the feeling becomes of failure more than motivation most of the time.
I have been trying to fuel this feeling towards working for a better career/personality, but I tend to keep losing momentum, the thoughts of being a failure creeps in and I just go in a spiral for a day or two.
I might not have worded correctly what I feel, but yeah, some sort of this.
Do any of you deal with something like this too? How do you tackle it?