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And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone’s station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.

If they are being insensitive to your concerns, then maybe they are not a good friend, but it sound like you’re the one insensitive to their concerns. You can both have different concerns.

Also this is literally a Switch post in a gaming community amd you self selected this complaint in here. It’s telling.

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

And there are those who have it even harder than YOU. Everyone’s station in life is different. They are allowed to experience that.

I’ve never understand the logic of the people who espouse that line of thinking. Is only the one single person alive who has it the literal worst out of all the billions of living human beings allowed to feel bad, and everyone else is obliged to look at them and say “well it could technically be worse so I guess I’m not allowed to feel bad”?

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- OmegaMouse@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I think you’re taking the meaning too far. It’s not that someone in a bad position is not allowed to feel bad. Rather, you have to consider the context in each case. A friend could be having a hard time, and even if your situation is technically worse, that doesn’t invalidate theirs. Because if you are willing to invalidate your friend’s difficulties, by that same token you could say your own are invalidated by those in an even worse position than yours.
  
  Essentially I’m saying that everyone’s life is different and their worries are valid. Yes, perhaps it can be a touch tone-deaf for one person in a privileged position to complain about something relatively trivial. But for someone to assert that their situation is infinitely more important, and that their friend shouldn’t be allowed to complain about their own experiences… it reeks of envy and narcissism.
  
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