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How do I stop feeling insecure to my peers?

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All my elite private school classmates went to Harvard, Stanford, MIT, etc. and are either working elite consulting/banking jobs or on their way to becoming doctor.

I went to an "above-average" school, and now work a "slightly above average" job that sucks monkey tits.

I have had a chip on my shoulder since those college admissions letters came out 8 years ago and it's eating at me every time a Facebook friend takes a selfie of their dope San Francisco apartment or vacationing with their high salaries or just being upper class, preppy, well off and set for life

Over the past two months I have mentally checked out at work, I stopped going to club sports practices, and i stay in on the weekends, I don't even play video games or watch porn, I just sit in my tub and stare at the ceiling, drink a beer and recount all my failures and insecurities throughout my life

People always say "money and prestige isn't everything mang" and then proceed to go "ooooooohh aaahhhh" at the people who actually have the money and prestige so I discount their advice.


I'm becoming very bitter and nihilistic. I really wish I could go to sleep and just never wake up since I don't have the balls to actually kill myself

What do
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That's why I just dropped out of high school and became a NEET instead of dealing with that inevitable shit.

You make enough money to attract women and have children at least, that's the only thing bothers me that I can't do. Unfortunately she might cheat on you, divorce you, and take your kids and half your money. That's why I just never even tried anyway, I have no other reason to care about making money.

You're a failed normalfag.
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>>18175281
Eat shit you fucking leech.

>>18175260
OP it sounds exactly like you're having a mid life crisis. Tell me, is this entirely about you feeling like you can't show off enough on facebook or is there something more you feel like your missing out on?
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>>18175260
sounds like you hang out with shit people m8.
Also I laugh at your attentionwhoring ways and how you've failed.
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>>18175343
Failing like every goal I set for myself in life
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>>18175418
Can you be a little more specific? You're not a sixteen year old girl don't do this cryptic bullshit.
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>>18175555
Failed academic goals
Failed at sports
Failed my major and had to drop to a bullshit one to graduate
Failed at being respected among my social group
Failed with like every girl I was intimate with
Failed at attracting girls I actually want
Failed at making my parents proud of me

And the worst thing is i always "almost" make it in my endeavors, no matter what they are. If i flat out get rekt at something, I accept I have no talent for it and move on

But instead it's always

"Anon you were SO close"
"If you just changed this one thing you'd be golden"
"You almost had em buddy"
"You're handsome and we had great sex but"
"You were .1 away from the cutoff, for application was so strong too what a shame :("


I'm scoring B's in all areas of my life. If i scored C's or D's it'd be easier to give up and put my energy towards something else
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>>18175260
>People always say "money and prestige isn't everything mang" and then proceed to go "ooooooohh aaahhhh" at the people who actually have the money and prestige
???
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>>18175577
Wow you're a fucking whiner. You know the only thing to do is to keep going and try harder if you want a shot at succeeding. What the fuck do you expect anyone here to tell you.

>yep, you failed before so just don't try to avoid disapointment

Let me know when the pity party is over.
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it's the opposite for me
I went to a typical suburban public school
most people went to the local community college or the nearest state universities
I look around and see everyone is just mediocre and so am I, and I constantly regret having just given up and gone to this mediocre university in flyover and taken this job in the same city I've always lived in
this is prison
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OP I'm not as old as you are, I still go to university and don't have a job, but I know how you feel.
I failed everything I tried to do. I just barely made it here and it's not going well either.
I've done a third-rate high school and now I'm going to a third-rate university.
Everyone I knew from middle school now is successfull, not to mention ahead of me of three years. I should have graduated by now.

However, while we may not become rich fucks surrounded by attractive women, we can still do some good. It's all about having a goal.
You should have a new goal. Something that would make you feel good. Even if you would have to work thrice as hard as others, do it.

If you settle down for something you deem mediocre you will never be happy. You may have a family and live for them but this thing will always eat at you inside until you die.

If you don't want regrets, then start again. There are always things we can do.
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>>18175260
have a similar problem but im still in school
i have above average grades
issue is im basically in a circle of friends where everyone is either baiting for compliments or has serious self doubt, but theyre all astronomically better than me at everything (i go to an art school i feel like i need to mention this cuz the difference in skill when looking at drawings is very obvious) i dont know how to mind my own damn business and not compare myself to them...im thinking about either giving up and not trying or just full on dropping out of school....help.
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>>18175260
I feel similar to you, OP. Except I'm worse. I'm not even working.
I graduated a top 3 school according to Shanghai Ranking for my field. Then I went to an equally good grad school in a different field, I had always been insecure about my ability as an undergraduate, especially around more talented people, so I thought that switching to a more "difficult" and abstract field would make me look superior. It didn't, instead I sit in the same class with talented people who are 5 years more experienced, my grades suffered in the first semester. So, what did I do? I took courses in my previous field this semester, in order to help my grade and to feel superior to people in my old field, once again.
It's quite pathetic, really. While I'm flipping back and forth in academia, my friends are doing well in SF bay, Silicon valley and Wall Street. I avoid any social media website now.
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