Ask Amy: Mom’s mistreatment has lingering effect
Envy is a natural, human emotion. I hope you can turn your envy into action by using this pause to fulfill a personal goal: To run a 5K or write a screenplay, and, in short, to use some of the time you will someday spend socializing to continue to develop personally.
Given how rocky the start of the university year seems to be so far, unfortunately, there is a possibility that your friends will be bouncing back home, due to a COVID-19 outbreak on their campus.
Dear Amy: Responding to your comment that you playing “Cowboys and Indians” in childhood was “despicable,” parents would make corrections if they were concerned. Few were.
We played “cops and robbers,” and it was very similar.
— C
Dear C: Exactly. That’s my point. Casting Indians always as the “robbers,” when they actually had been robbed, is what bothers me so much.
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