You are young, rich, good looking and immensely talented. You are a happy father, your girlfriend is exceptionally beautifully, and you are the stand out star of a football club considered by many to be the biggest around.
You would be heralded as the world's best footballer if it wasn't for a pesky Argentine and you have won everything there is to win in club football, but you have also scored more goals this season (and last) than the planet's best footballer, Lionel Messi.
Your name? Cristiano Ronaldo. Universally envied as you are, why do you appear so disenchanted?
The Portuguese star will line up for his eighth el clasico in 10 months tonight. He has been on the winning side in just one of those games - when he scored a glorious injury-time winner in the Copa del Rey final in Valencia.
There have been accusations that he has failed to shine far too many times against Barcelona. A section of Real fans criticised Ronaldo for that, they whistled and jeered and he did not take kindly to it. Fans are often harder on their own and pine for what they once had. Manchester United fans still sing "Viva Ronaldo" but hard to please Real fans do not share that enthusiasm.
Ronaldo attracts envy. He is arrogant in a self-assured type of way. He said last year that people were jealous because he is rich and good looking. Maybe they are, but is it wise to say it?
He did not celebrate a goal against Granada recently. He is having his difficult moment, ironically, just when Real are having their best spell since he signed in 2009. Yet Ronaldo is learning too.
It is to his credit that he has become more of a team player this year. He is less selfish and where he would have taken a shot last year, he will now make a pass to one of the prodigious goal scorers around him, such as Gonzalo Higuain or Karim Benzema.
He is no Angel Di Maria when it comes to assists and he remains a direct player who can change a game, but Ronaldo's subtle adaptation is one reason why Real continue to improve.
That he has still managed 21 league goals in 17 league starts is to his credit. Repeat that in the second half of the season and he will beat last year's 41 in 34 games, the most goals ever scored by a player in a single Spanish league season. It should also keep him ahead of his rival from Camp Nou.
Ronaldo did not score at the weekend in Real's 2-1 win at Mallorca, the third time in the last four games he has failed to find the net, but he played well as part of a team.
If Real fail to beat Barcelona tonight then Ronaldo will carry much of the burden of criticism.
He was bought to be a game changer and he is criticised if he does not do that, no matter what the opposition. Such demands come with his exalted reputation and talent, something his ego needs to understand.
