McGuinness showed guts to leave comfort zone. Why the begrudgery?

As you get older, you start to realise there will always be people who are more concerned with pulling you down rather than raising you up. That’s life. If they themselves aren’t courageous enough to reach for their potential, it’s like they want to make sure nobody else strives for more either.
Remember as a kid when you’d couldn’t wait to show your friends your pristine new trainers you got for your birthday? Within a couple of hours of taking them out of the box, some joker would stomp on them and scuff them up. Your friends would all laugh, delighted with themselves for ‘breaking them in’ for you.