When you take a risk or do something different, people often see it as a judgment on their choices and want you to fail. Your success would force them to question why they didn't do the same.
That's the really nasty one, is that if you start doing something different than everyone else is doing, they assume that you're attacking them for living their lives out. I don't know why people do this, but they do it. And so a lot of ways they want you to fail because they want confirmation that the path that they're on is the right path, and they want you to fail with the risk that you choose to take because it confirms the fact that they, that they shouldn't take the risk that they weren't willing to take.
