3rd shift

The thing that bothers me most about third shift, far more than anything else, is the pity and "special treatment" that those closest to me feel they have to give me. Am I less of a person because I sleep during the day? Is my life so awful because I'm starting to gain financial independence? My situation is the best it has been in the last 4 years. Which is not to say my life is the best it could be, there are lots of things I regret and situations/opportunities I could have handled better. But, that's in the past and there is nothing I can do about them now. Right now I am doing the best I can with what I have, and people seem to think that I am some how diseased with disappointment.