Although some problems are worse than others and obviously soldiers (bless them and all they do for their countries) have it hard, we also need to realize that teenagers have VERY high rates of depression and often struggle to handle their emotions as well as adults do. Just because an issue doesn't seem as big as another persons doesn't mean it doesn't affect somebody the same, pain is pain; how we react to it is the big issue.
The post does not belittle anyones pain. All it is saying is that we should try and be happy because somewhere out there is someone who, perhaps, has it much harder than us and is making every effort to move on. Mourn all you want but there's always, always a silver lining and something to be thankful for.
That's how I look at it and is the reason why I posted it :)
Sorry I was meaning that you were belittling peoples pain :)
I just get annoyed at some people who use arguments about heroic people who have been through a lot and then comparing them to others, it isn't fair.
But it is a beautiful post :D
I completely agree with your point of view. It makes me sick how people actually do that, and they wouldn't know unless they go through it themselves (though I would never wish my pain on anyone else). It's cruel, and rather than helping a person out of depression they'd probably be pushing them further down the hole.
about the teenager thing as well a good bit of the soldiers are young men still in their teens
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· 10 years ago
Just remember some people do but you can't say they can't be sad cause other people are suffering with worse conditions it's like telling someone they can't be happy cause other people have it better off. I'm not offending or telling anyone they're wrong I'm posting a reminder
Not to down grade this post because I totally understand others have it harder but you can't tell other to not be sad because others have it harder. It's like telling them they can't be happy because others have it better.
To all the comments about how some people have pain of their own even if they're no soldiers, yes that is true. But those are not really the type of problems justgirlythings preaches about. All their problems are about missing your boyfriend and shit, save for maybe one or two. Call me crazy, but I think soldiers have it worse than that.
It's all about perspective.
I can relate because I was pretty fucked up as a teen... As in, probably should have had an intervention at some point level of fucked up.
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It's all about the magnitude of the issue and how it relates to that point in your life, but there are many problems that teens encounter that they really need to do something about rather than just lament over, mired in misery... Whatever that "something" might be.
This is so stupid for comparing the lives of teenagers today and the men who fought in wars because you are comparing two completely different things from two different times, which of course makes the teen's problems today sound like it's nothing important and stupid. Of course, being in war is more painful, but there is a different kind of pain today that ALSO takes lives, and whenever I see this post, it reminds me that whoever made the original one didn't care about problems of society today at all and wanted to shame all young people
I'm sorry, the last line of your comment really got to me. How exactly would you define "problem of the society today?". You really think that wars or soldiers come from a different time and no longer exist? Are you also trying to say that this "different kind of pain today" you talk about didn't exist earlier? Like it has been said before in the comments section "pain is pain". No one, and not even the post says that teen problems are stupid or unimportant. I request you to read the previous comments to gather what the post meant to me before I posted it.
Pain is different to those with different perspectives, but pain will always be pain . Some people sympathies with different people, but the bottom line is everyone has a different version of hell
Sorry I was a little misunderstood but what I mean by society today was what teenagers in MY OR YOUR community/country, and yes I am aware of wars happening in countries (My family is kind of in the middle of one, hope you know about Ukraine) and the different kind of pain wasn't as recognized and wasn't as strong before as it is now, which is the main concern in teenagers or in anybody today. So I'm half heartedly sorry if I offended you in any way or had any misunderstandings in my previous comment
I'm pretty sure is was Hank Green who said 'Telling people not to be sad because there are people sadder than you is like telling people not to be happy because there are people happier than you. '
Yes other do have it worse and we should acknowledge if but saying we can't be sad because others have it worse than us is the same as saying we can't be happy because someone else has it better then us. We are all allowed to experience sadness because for that individual although that problem may not be the worse thing in the world it maybe the worse thing to ever happen to them.
I agree that wars are just something that destroys lives, BUT I can say Japan deserved when we dropped two bombs on them. There is too much even In this world to avoid wars, so I guess we just have to make the most happiness as we can as the world was not created simply for war and hatred.
Ehem Japan did ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT deserve death of millions of innocent people by two bombs no matter WHAT they did, and if you want to educate yourself, there's a special museum in Canada explaining and dedicated to educating people on why Japan did what they did back then
That's how I look at it and is the reason why I posted it :)
I just get annoyed at some people who use arguments about heroic people who have been through a lot and then comparing them to others, it isn't fair.
But it is a beautiful post :D
-Herbert Hoover
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
I can relate because I was pretty fucked up as a teen... As in, probably should have had an intervention at some point level of fucked up.
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It's all about the magnitude of the issue and how it relates to that point in your life, but there are many problems that teens encounter that they really need to do something about rather than just lament over, mired in misery... Whatever that "something" might be.