Like, legit, I resented them so much as a kid & young adult, but as I've gotten to my mid-30s, I've found that they never really gave that much attention to the choices they made in life. They often d...
It really did kind of hurt my heart watching my older sister go through first believing that getting married would make her happy, & then thinking it would be when she had a kid, & then thinking it would be when she had several kids.
*I* knew that's not how happiness worked. I'd seen enough of other people's lives by then to know that pinning your hopes on things like that leads to a cycle of disappointment, but she was just out there, blazing her own path, not realizing where she was headed.
*I* knew that's not how happiness worked. I'd seen enough of other people's lives by then to know that pinning your hopes on things like that leads to a cycle of disappointment, but she was just out there, blazing her own path, not realizing where she was headed.
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