Well, personally I shaped and changed history for a curse. We're not the architects of humanity Elijah, we played our part perhaps but there's more to resent than praise. Don't you think.
No, he's right. And Elena was wrong to speak to him at all. But its what she's like, you know that, thinks she can make the world love her if she looks sad enough. Hopefully she took the lesson in hand. Rebekah would not have been so angry had she been well. Or not so delusional anyway.
You know well how I dealt with her tantrums in the past.