The world is wonderful as it is filled with many different kinds of people. Short, skinny, fat and tall. Some of us are men, some are women, some are both and some are neither. There is one thing I can ensure, nobody has an 'easy life'. Whether you are rich or poor, white or black, athletic or academic we all face our separate issues. Our issues are a big deal to us and nobody has the right to belittle you or water down your problems because they think theirs are worse. Our problems are not relative to each other but to ourselves. In my experience I have been through many different spectrum's of society. I have faced poverty and adversity as well as mingled with the rich and successful. I would like to think by now I have a broad knowledge of what it is to be human.
Many weeks ago my friend was attacked, insulted and belittled over his problems. He had what can be considered a good life, he was well off without doubt. He lived in the Western suburbs, He attended Scotch and graduated from UWA. He is also a manic depressive, he faces problems that the wider community have never heard of. This friend of mine has had to work through toxic family conditions and a series of mental health issues to work his way up to a life goal he set himself many years ago. There was just one last speed hump to his success and it sucked the life out of him. He crumbled. He almost failed to achieve his goal, so he turned to the help of his friends, one of who rejected him and then to add injury to insult he was told his issues are irrelevant, that he is not liked because he did not grow up in the same chaos as that another person.
This other person, I do not know her life but her actions reflect poorly upon her personality. She had the audacity to critique another persons problems because she believed she had suffered through worse. This is not the attitude of the resilient fighter she tries to portray herself as, this is the attitude of a jealous, bitter person who has to project their issues upon another. It breaks my heart to think someone who has apparently suffered so much would dare break down another person and be perfectly OK with that. It disgusts me that she would think that personal suffering is some sort of competition and that her issues can make other peoples problems invalid. She is in need of a reality check, because if this is a competition I assure you she will lose to others. My friend was supportive of this girl and her issues, he was sympathetic and in return he got kicked while he was down.
We as a community and a society need to remember something incredibly important. That is to be kind to each other. Yes, there are drama queens, those who over exaggerate, those who lie and so on but that is irrelevant in the end. If a person has a problem then that is theirs and you have no right to dispute it. We are all fighting our own demons and we all carry baggage, remember that. Be proud of your problems, you are after all only human.
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