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Oh, grow up. Please. And grow some brain cells. Try to figure out the difference between "disappointment" and "envy." Also, try to figure out the difference between modesty and false modesty, if you can, although I suspect introspection is not your forte. Try to figure out the difference between a kids' sports game and a potentially life-changing event. Also, nobody here has ever said that envy is OK, so stop repeating that. And finally, stop pretending we're on the playing fields of Eton in order to justify your inability to feel comopassion.

Don't you have a clue what compassion is? It's empathy and understanding. By definition, it's with regard to someone who is suffering. Nobody on this thread has EVER said that envy is a good thing. I'm sure the disappointed parents don't want to feel envy. But they can't avoid it for a few weeks until they can get over it. So wipe that sh!t-eating grin off your smug mug, and join the human race.

(PS, don't come back at me with your lame retort about sour grapes, because I'm pretty sure you'd want your kid to trade places with my kid, I'm not naming the school though.)[/quote]

You are ridiculous.  The PP I quoted talked about how she "had a story ready" with lots of eyerolling and minimizing in order to deflect the potential reaction of the people she's talking to.  If that isn't false, I don't know what is.

Of course I know the difference between disappointment and envy.  Disappointment is what I feel about my child not getting something we hoped for, envy is when your child and your family figure into it at all.  Finally, I also know the difference between compassion, suffering, and narcissism, which it seems hardly anyone else in this community does.[/quote]

Here's an eye roll, just for you:   :roll:

You still haven't explained why making other people feel better, whether it's genuine or you have to fake it, is a BAD thing. And don't start again with the don't-enable-the-jealous-losers nonsense again. If you really get the difference between disappointment and envy (I have my doubts, although props for knowing how to thumb through a dictionary) and if you really understand what compassion is all about (again, I have my doubts), then you'll stop framing this as a manichean contest between privileged you and those jealous rejects. [/quote]

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