When someone achieves what you still desire, their joy may touch your tenderest place.

When someone achieves what you still desire, their joy may touch your tenderest place. That feeling does not make you a bad person. You can celebrate them and still feel sadness for yourself. But their opportunity did not steal yours, and their timing does not prove you are late. Another person’s victory can be evidence that the path exists. Let it point you forward rather than make you feel smaller.