And it is most definitely silly because I have a nice enough life, am not competitive in any way, and prefer reading poems to building property portfolios 
I am not the target audience for the rich and famous, and barely know who any of them are.
But I am a watercolour painter who loves watercolour, I live in a semi rural part of the country and have a good life. It's modest but fulfilled, so I am not feeling depressed or lacking. I spend most of my time either reading, painting, have a small group of family and friends, and enjoy my job. My home is small but sufficient. I never even thought of any of this prior to recently, when I joined instagram to share some of my art work.
The vast majority of popular accounts of artists similar to myself seem to have incredible, large, period properties with original features, vast studio spaces, outbuildings, orchards, spaces for rustic/vintage machinery such as printing presses, dye rooms, rooms just for plants, and so on and so on. It's lovely to look at, but what started to bother me was how this seems to ensure visibility, with the art work coming in second.
I get it, social media can be rather shallow, and we all know the 'illusion' of lovely lives, but these are not fictitious, they are, as photo evidence would attest, quite real.
And whilst I don't envy strangers on the internet, it did throw my own life into a somewhat 'meh' contrast, which I KNOW is utter tripe, but it still had an effect.
I work in a corner of the spare room, with a small amount of space for my materials, my paintings stored in a large plastic student's carry case.
I will admit that once I come away from instagram i pretty much forget it and carry on with life, but it does stick out when I am on there. I wonder who the heck these people are, with 24 - 7 hours free to create (very similar) paintings , with what appear to be 900K homes, and no husband in sight. Most are over 50, which explains the settled aspect of their lives, but it does seem to have a 'theme'.
And yes, they do seem to be mostly women, as the male artists I follow don't tend to post their private lives like that, they just post their work.
I don't know what I am asking exactly, other than does anyone else notice this stuff?...even if you are quite stoic, confident and financially stable, it really does seem like a whole new world out there!
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