We were sitting around the kitchen table and in the course of our conversation I said something like this, “You cannot win, either people feel sorry for you or they envy you. Successful people are envied and  non-achievers are pitied.” Nobody said anything contrary to that. So it is probably true.

And………. we are all on the same boat.

The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 4:4 (easy to remember)

“And I saw that all labour and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbour. This too is meaningless, a chasing after wind.”