Originally Posted by squishys
I find it sad because their jealousy of your child just shows their own disappointment in their own child.

And disappointment in themselves by extension. I always want to hug these people's children because their parents are valuing them according to a narrow set of attributes and missing what makes them special.

Some of my favourite people in my life are the simplest, least erudite because their kindness and love are their exceptional qualities. I mean for that to sound laudatory, not pejorative.

What is to give light must endure burning.