I have lived a pretty unconventional life, by choice, because I don't really have the typical needs and wants of most people. That alone has caused me loss of friends and a lot of criticism from my family because they think I should be more conventional and like them, but then over the last few years I've become really successful gaining a small amount of fame as well as a small fortune, enough that I really wouldn't have to work the rest of my life at present if I didn't want to (I'm 29). Instead of being happy for me, pretty much all of my old friends have turned on me and criticize pretty much everything I've done. My siblings no longer seem to want to have anything to do with me and ganged up on me and "bullied" me over the holidays any time I talked about anything going on in my life at all. Even my parents criticized my new lifestyle and are just sure I'm going to be miserable the rest of my life now since I don't have a normal 9-5 job or a wife (yet).
I'm not really depressed, but it has been quite interesting, and not really in a good way. It's like, people don't actually care about you at all, they don't wish you well; they just want you to be like them so they have someone to betch about life with. Once you do anything extraordinary, all they want is for you to fail. It's pretty horrible really.