When Your Parents Don’t Believe In You
They recite discouraging statistics
This is a tough one: sometimes, my mom will just mention, out of the blue, how very few people actually succeed at what I’m trying to do. Shouldn’t she, as my mother, think that if anyone is going to succeed, it’d be her daughter? If anyone should think I’m special and I have what it takes, shouldn’t it be the woman who made me?