There’s a great bit in Modern Family with Phil Dunphy and his longtime rival – a fellow geek who always seemed cooler.
In one episode, Phil pretends Gloria (Sofía Vergara) is his wife. This old rival looks at him and says: “Wait… I thought you married Claire. I was always so jealous. I thought you were the luckiest guy on the planet.”
And that’s when it hits Phil – and us.
We spend so much time looking at others, wishing we had a piece of their life. But the truth is, more often than not, they’re looking back at us thinking the same.
It’s played for laughs, but like the best humor, it lands with a powerful truth: we are often luckier than we realize.
