This is entirely uncharitable of me

[feuervogel]

My mother is more excited about my sister's new baby (Clara Rose, born just before midnight last night) than about me getting a doctoral degree.

To be fair, she is also more excited about my sister's new baby than my sister's college degree or any of her achievements in theater.

Not that that makes it a whole lot better, really. It just makes it less about me and more about my mom only valuing baby baby baby.

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[krait]

Yep, I have met a few cool parents out there, but a key feature of that is definitely "understands it's a job and a chore sometimes, and not everybody wants to sign up for it"!

But then, I consider peer pressure the sign of an immature mind, so that makes perfect sense. If you need me to do something in order to convince yourself your choice is valid... maybe you should reconsider your choice. If you *really* want to do something, you don't care whether it's what everybody is doing! Life is not a popularity contest: you don't get points for picking the most common path, and you don't get points for coercing others to join you.

[groovesinorbit]

Ah, but you do get points! Not from folks like us, certainly. But the status quo rewards board. They hand out points for shit like that constantly. That's part of the problem.