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Don’t Covet Your Neighbor’s Canapés
Do you know people who inhabit charmed lives? With their perfect cars, lovers, pets, bed linens, friends, books being-made-into-movie deals, families of origin, appetizers, vacation homes and flower arrangements, they breeze through the day-to-day, while most of us are exhausted and demoralized. They don’t seem to break a sweat. When I’m reeking envy, William, my wise therapist friend, tells me, “Don’t compare your insides to someone else’s outside.” Fair enough. Maybe on closer examination, these charmed lives really suck. But still, they make it look so easy.
(Image: Pusher Woman by Mel Kadel, whose work is featured in 2TheWall until March 2.)
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