The part you envy may be available without copying the whole arrangement.

Envy tends to arrive as a package. You see someone’s whole life and want it entire, when what actually pulls at you is usually one element: the quiet mornings, the work they find interesting, the way they seem unhurried. The rest of the package may not appeal to you at all.

Name the one specific thing you want, in a sentence, and then ask what the smallest version of it would look like in your own week. Quiet mornings may cost you an hour of evening. Interesting work may start as one afternoon a month. Take the piece and leave the rest where it is.