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the good old "how dare you desire for your life to be better when there's people who's lives are worse!"
The go-to "you aren't allowed to complain" that I heard was "well there are children starving in Africa"
We don't compare trauma. This isn't a competition.
There was a liberating moment when I learned that just feeling awful was not an effective way to stop wars.
If I hear that, I show the stupidity by doing the opposite:
How can you be happy? There are people getting married today, they are much happier!
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Yeah yeah, not all who marry are happy, you get the point