Is this the old gag of suffer through the night, wake up and snow is over and you look and you are not in the real lodge? The glorious all comfort lodge was just beyond sight in the snow. You slept in the guard cabin or whatever.
An ordinary life is not a bad thing, though. People just notice the good, exciting, positive things in someone els’s life and the problems, hardship, and negative in their own. That is where the jealousy and wanting to see people fail comes from. Everyone has good and bad. Having an “ordinary” life with loved ones, a job, some hobbies that you enjoy. That is a great life.
AHA! The old " Planet killing asteroid" bit to entice a little hanky panky!