“You shouldn’t be sad while others have it worse.”
Therefore,
“You shouldn’t be happy while others have it better.”
Can you imagine if the frown turned into a smile upon hearing that? That’s the true depressing thought (that we would take pleasure in hearing of others misery).
wHy DoN’t YoU jUsT bE hApPy?
Fallacy of relative privation
For a few people, this kind of thinking helps. It does for me, actually. When I feel like my life sucks it can help to compare myself to an imaginary Anglo-Saxon peasant woman during the invasion of the Sons of Lodbrok, and it actually helps to realize just how much better I have it than her.
But that doesn’t work for everyone, and even those it works for kinda need to do the comparison themselves, not have it pushed on them.
It can also make a person feel worse by making them feel like they’re a bad person for daring to have depression when there are others who have worse lives.
I get this. I think about how relatively great my life is compared to humanity across the planet and it just depresses me so much further.
Bro’s mustache grew like crazy
