No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.

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