Think of a human being. Now think of a rock. You're a lot cooler than the rock. You're alive and sentient and capable of choice and that makes you, as a matter of plain fact, pretty damn wonderful. (Never mind that you, CronoDAS, are very obviously insightful and interesting.) Now once you recognize that you're already pretty damn wonderful, you can start thinking about the optimal way to cope with your setback.

Playing devil's advocate for a while, rocks also tend to cause a lot less damage than people. Rocks don't pollute, eat meat, receive a government subsidized education, contribute to traffic congestion, or other things. On a purely economic level, at least, so far I've made the world slightly poorer rather than richer; if I were a business, I'd be one that has gone through quite a lot of start-up capital and hasn't become profitable yet.