treat you with kindness

there’s a great scene in mark twain’s almost-children’s book, almost-adult book titled “advice to little girls” where he writes:

“if you have nothing but a rag-doll stuffed with sawdust, while one of your more fortunate little playmates has a costly china one, you should treat her with a show of kindness nevertheless.”

compare mode will always surface. it never ages. so-and-so has a better title; so-and-so got promoted; so-and-so has a graduate degree; that’s why she’s further ahead than you, right? wrong.

stop.

treat her with kindness. more so though, treat you with kindness.