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Hi,
Recently I bought a new car because my older car kept breaking. If you look at my older topics, in 2019 I couldn't pay my rent but today I am financially stable. I am nothing like rich, but I am just living nicely thanks to the United States, I can work from Eastern Europe and get paid in dollars, and earning even the minimal American salary is making you "rich" in Eastern Europe.
The neighbor that I rent my house floor from bought the same car as me for their only son. They literally went to the bank, took a mortgage, and bought the car just to compete with me. His mom called me to drink coffee with her and I thought it was just because she wants to chat with me, but she invited me only to tell me that they bought their son a car. And I was fine with that and I congratulated them.
But after I went home it started bothering me, I started to compare myself with them with stupid excuses, like they took a mortgage, but I paid cash, I grew up without a father and was raised by a single mom and I couldn't stop thinking of these "reasons" why he has it so easy and I don't.
How do you achieve this state of mind where you just congratulate other people without any envy? I just want to leave the Jonasses race. My neighbors are typical narcissistic Jonasses who will do anything to not feel below and they will do anything to feel above me, but I don't want any of that shit. I only want to compete with myself and not with others, but they keep competing with me.
Recently I bought a new car because my older car kept breaking. If you look at my older topics, in 2019 I couldn't pay my rent but today I am financially stable. I am nothing like rich, but I am just living nicely thanks to the United States, I can work from Eastern Europe and get paid in dollars, and earning even the minimal American salary is making you "rich" in Eastern Europe.
The neighbor that I rent my house floor from bought the same car as me for their only son. They literally went to the bank, took a mortgage, and bought the car just to compete with me. His mom called me to drink coffee with her and I thought it was just because she wants to chat with me, but she invited me only to tell me that they bought their son a car. And I was fine with that and I congratulated them.
But after I went home it started bothering me, I started to compare myself with them with stupid excuses, like they took a mortgage, but I paid cash, I grew up without a father and was raised by a single mom and I couldn't stop thinking of these "reasons" why he has it so easy and I don't.
How do you achieve this state of mind where you just congratulate other people without any envy? I just want to leave the Jonasses race. My neighbors are typical narcissistic Jonasses who will do anything to not feel below and they will do anything to feel above me, but I don't want any of that shit. I only want to compete with myself and not with others, but they keep competing with me.
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