Filters
Now the question is how to get to that place where you are able to be nice and still say no when you don’t want to do something asked of you. Are they mutually exclusive?
Love and Family
The love for the parents is one thing but there are the siblings and the extended family. Do you want to be around them or would you prefer to not even be related? Would you want to give back the family card?
Little things
The music of my teenage years and my twenties was the best. I don’t think it was because the music was better it was just that I remember that period of my life was in many ways carefree. It was nice.
Comparison
My mother would say never envy someone especially as you have never walked in their shoes.