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You are the problem.
You claim you're life was normal, but what you don't understand is that you had it better than like 90% of your fellow citizens.
Don't worry, you're in good company. I regularly meet people who live in million dollar homes who think they are impoverished and struggling and life is unfair and cruel and they are 'barely getting by'. Nobody will ever admit they are rich, because 'someone else has more than me therefore i can't be.'
I have 500K in assets. I am rich by any definition, but sadly people tell me I am poor and struggling because they seem to think 'rich' is 50 million in assets, minimum, and that 5 million in assets is 'middle class'. Again, because they are clueless people who live in bubbles and don't interact with people outside of their wealth bracket in any meaningful way and endlessly compare themselves to their peers rather than a broader spectrum of their fellow citizens.