I recently saw an ad (Youtube link) for an instant camera in which they barely ever showed a photo coming out of it (that's supposed to be the main feature of an instant camera). The reason is that the ad was not trying to sell a camera at all, it was trying to sell a life you'll live if you just buy their product. A lot of advertisements do this probably because it works. People are more receptive to things like that.
I sometimes wonder if that kind of life exists. The all-smiles all-the-time kind of life that you usually only see in ads. In fact, I caught myself feeling this feeling of unfairness, that someone, somewhere is living that life and I am not able to. I wasn't born to. But that's just not true, it's all an illusion. Real life isn't like that, in the real world, there are struggles, and worries, and accidents, and all sorts of problems. And that's okay, that's the way it is supposed to be.
I think that the closest thing we have to that sort of life is how we remember our teenage years. Not the way they actually were, but the way we remember them. I often associate my adolescence with friends, going out, having fun, and so on. But that's not entirely true either. I was actually struggling with a lot of things back then and I definitely didn't go out with friends every single day. In fact, I believe there were weeks when I would just sit at home. But for some reason, I still associate my life back then with all the things that the ad was trying to sell to me. Maybe that's also an effect of all the ads I have been subjected to over the years, or maybe it's just nostalgia glasses.
Anyway, I think we should always remember that the life in those ads is an illusion meant to trick us and never feel bad that we live in the real, beautiful world, with all its imperfections.