This is a story about how I ended up in a McDonald’s, in a bad part of LA eating a Happy Meal for Christmas lunch. It’s also a story about Facebook envy.  Facebook Envy is a condition that causes you to see one single fabulous out of context moment of someone else’s life and compare their one great moment against the totality of your own life. I’ve experienced it, and I suspect I’ve also caused it. Now for the Christmas part. McDonald’s was the only place open.  My two daughters and I had to walk there.  We had been up since 4 AM.  We looked awful. If I had seen someone looking like myself (a mess that day) with her two daughters, also looking messy, eating at McDonald’s on Christmas Day in a rough part of town, I would have thought, “Oh my, what could have possibly happened in that poor woman’s life that she ended up having Christmas dinner with her daughters at McDonald’s. Poor dear, how pathetic.” I likely would have given her what I believed to be an encouraging smile hoping to communicate nonjudgmental empathy for her plight. Here’s the backstory. I ended up looking pitiful at McDonald’s Christmas day because my family and I had flown to LA from Atlanta early that morning.  We had a 10-hour layover in LA before we caught a flight to Australia, where we were embarking on a fabulous two-week trip. It was a super extravagant family present. We’d booked a day room at an airport so we could nap during our layover. My daughters and I had a craving for French fries. So we walked down the street to the only place open, McDonald’s, and http://www.mcleodandmore.com/2014/01/31/how-to-get-over-facebook-envy/