The rest of the list notwithstanding, this one got me thinking:
>Well-meaning friends and relatives will try to sabotage your efforts to be thankless. For example, while you’re in the middle of complaining about the project you procrastinated on at work to your spouse during an unhealthy dinner, he or she might try to remind you of how grateful you should be to have a job or food at all.
Am I the only person who finds these sorts of pithy attempts to be colossally irritating?
Feeling sad/depressed? Cheer up!
Feeling overwhelmed? It's not so bad!
Job annoying you? At least you have a job!
Yes, thank you for the comment and completely shutting down my attempts at commiserating. Now am I not only still bothered by what I was originally bothered by, I'm annoyed at the interlocutor.
> It’s inevitable that as you make yourself miserable, you’ll be making those around you miserable also, at least until they leave you—which will give you another reason to feel miserable.
>Well-meaning friends and relatives will try to sabotage your efforts to be thankless. For example, while you’re in the middle of complaining about the project you procrastinated on at work to your spouse during an unhealthy dinner, he or she might try to remind you of how grateful you should be to have a job or food at all.
Am I the only person who finds these sorts of pithy attempts to be colossally irritating?
Feeling sad/depressed? Cheer up!
Feeling overwhelmed? It's not so bad!
Job annoying you? At least you have a job!
Yes, thank you for the comment and completely shutting down my attempts at commiserating. Now am I not only still bothered by what I was originally bothered by, I'm annoyed at the interlocutor.
Perhaps I'm only 1/14th miserable? :)