After thinking about it for a while, I think I have an answer to the question raised in my last post (at least for me):
No.
If you get what you want, then you have absolutely no right to be upset solely on the basis that someone else got something better.
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It's funny - that made me think of those commercials (for insurance, I think) where the guy offers a kid a pony, and then offers the next kid a real pony. Of course it's not exactly the same, because the offerer wasn't giving the whole story.
I'm not sure you can be upset with the giver, but you could probably be upset with yourself for not thinking of the better thing
'better' is such a relative term that isn't hard to say who really gets the better deal. Isn't that such a cop out answer?
How about this then: Even if someone else gets something I consider better, as long as I get what I want, I can revel in the bittering sweetness that is knowing that thinking something else someone else got is better doesn't necessarily mean that they think what they got was better.
To quote Quentin Crisp: "We lived in debt. It looks better, and keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. it was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level."
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