The desire to be special can only exist if you don’t know who you are.
"Envy is inversely correlated with self-examination. The less you know yourself, the more you look to others to get an idea of your worth. But the more you delve into who you are, the less you seek from others, and the dissolution of envy begins."
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When you know who you are, the optics of who you are becomes less important.