I used to feel guilty about my hardships in life. I knew other people had been through worse things than me, so I didn't feel like I deserved to be upset about my situation. Eventually I realized this is toxic. Problems aren't a competition; my issues came inside the-
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I might reckon that the recognition is awarded based on how one might develop tolerances for higher suffering. It is the trait of robust mental health, or alternatively, the mark of a masochist-stoicist. To those that levy challenges in the sphere of pain, what might one say?
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Possible over-estimation of the ability for human constructs of wealth, status, privilege to buffer us from the human condition, also.
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We can both be right here. Certainly people obsessed w/ "inequality" are detrimental to these conversations, but your initial thought was about the perception of the material, & we can't dismiss the difference the material makes in terms of how we're all reasonably perceived.
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one part of your life is better than one part of my life how dare you feel pain you must only ever be forever grateful and never talk about it lest you remind me on purpose probably, just lording it over i would do so much better if i had your pain let me tell everyone that
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This also the same thinking that gets us some pompous jackass telling us that people aren't poor if they own an Xbox, because poor people in other countries can't afford them. It's called the fallacy of relative privation.
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Guilt is a never ending cycle. Enjoy the good things in your life and realize you deserve them. We all do. We weren't built for misery. Sometimes the poorest among us understand this better than others. It's more black and white for them.
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hardships are your greatest opportunity
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OMG. You're losing your touch. I agree with everything you've said in this thread. I'm gonna have to find some of that Libertarian stuff that frustrates me so.
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All true. My family was a big promoter of the 'other people have it worse' school of thought.
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I look at it differently. It's not abt engaging in pain competition, it's abt having gratitude that the 'pain' we're experiencing is usually that of a pain relative to the extreme privilege & comfort of our lives & that this honest reflection provides an appreciative perspective
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