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THIRTY SIX | Tit For Tat
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2023-11-18 08:30:20[XAVIER]
I never truly realized how blessed I have been all my life. Perhaps I was too busy comparing things I did not have than appreciating what I did. Maybe I am not alone. Perhaps we all do this at some point in our lives. And that makes me wonder- why do we keep going on? Why don’t we do anything to change?
When I was little, I used to be envious of my brother. I envied he got to spend more time with our father than I normally did. I hated my father would give Mir the sort of attention he never gave to me.
During dinners—which our father always made sure to have with family—he would pay critical interest to the things Mir did or said. The whispers they would share behind the office doors, the places our father would take him, all the secrets they kept between themselves—all of that…all of that made me bitter. And upset.
It wasn’t like our father treated me poorly or something. He was actually nice
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