recognised with due sadness that she was "in a different league" in every respect

Saw the video to Wake Me Up When September Ends earlier. The portrayal of life in it absolutely devastated me, how there were these perfectly innocent teens playing happily in buttercup fields, without a care in the world... you can come from a small town and have an inseparable love of your life, or you can have commodities and materialite goods which you take for granted like me, and have nothing in the relationship sphere. Or maybe that's just because Evan Rachel Wood is one of the hottest looking actresses around. Either way I felt temporarily crushed.