In my opinion the world seems to run on statistics rules which means that some people will be very lucky and also very unlucky in terms of state for an accepted period of time, but for most of us we’ll feel somewhere in the middle.
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Hearing about an unlucky person can make a person who feels unlucky, feel lucky.
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Hearing about a very lucky person can make a person who normally feels lucky, feel less lucky.
Either can be used to feel appreciation for what we have, or motivation to strive for more, respectively.
A tiny droplet of water in the ocean may feel like life is meaningless and boring, only to realize that at least they aren’t a droplet suspended in a compound of whale diarrhea, and still strive to be the droplet silkily streaming off of a beautiful model. Whether they become either is immaterial. Now, the droplet’s life isn’t boring, and may even have something approximating “meaning.”
By the way, “Hi”.