How do you accept inequality as a person?

🎻 Opinion

(I'm gonna change the title of the post because the previous title really send the post off the rail. The whole discussion around the race and immigration is not what I intended. )

So, I went through a lot to get here. I studied so much to come here for a master and after doing my master's I had to apply for almost a 1000 job to finally find one that will give me visa sponsorship.

However, at this point that I'm settling down, I can't help myself but to see the inequalities in the pathes. People around me come from a wayyy more comfortable background than me.

One colleague 3 years younger than me, lived with his parents until this year that he inherited an apartment.

My friend has found a position in a big law firm making 6figures in exactly the same age as me.

I burned through my 20s working and studying to get a middle-class life and now I'm living with people who were just handed all these. And not just this. Way more.

And I look at all those high paying rules in our corporate, the whole business manager etc. and all I see is that I can never have those as well. Please don't tell me you can if you work hard. I don't have those business schools degrees or network. I'm don't know the unwritten rules of those elite social circles. I'm also very tired from my 20s and everything that I had to sacrifice to get here.

I just don't know how to accept and make my peace with it. Accepting it feels like I have failed in life.

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

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