Tuesday 11 September 2007
C’mon, it’s not that bad!
It always irritates me when I hear armchair critics ‘consoling’ those that have been hurt by life with trite sayings, like: ‘It’s not that bad’ or ‘Don’t let that get you down’, etc. as though their suffering could have been worse and negative thoughts or feelings are not as valid and as valuable as positive ones. It reminds me of a line in William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet: Romeo response to those who mock him: ‘He jests at scars that never felt a wound.’
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I know what you mean.. a friend of mine has just been told she has a 6% chance of falling pregnant and wants a child so badly.. she is shattered.. You can't exactly say, well maybe you're part of the 6%.. and then there the thousands of kids in the UK having kids just to get a free house.. go figure
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