Give Me Sympathy

I have come to the realization that I am an incredibly unsympathetic person at times. Most of the time, I'm all for the underdog, but when the underdog is being sympathetic enough to themself for the both of us, I don't feel the need to drown them in tenderness.

Horrible things happen to people, but when you can't step back and say "yeah life sucks, but I can pull through this because I do have some things going for me" you're just purposefully digging yourself deeper into misery. And on top of that, some things that happen in life, you ask for. Actions have consequences. If you can't accept the consequences of your own actions I can't either.

It's just really presumptuous to assume that everyone else's life is perfect and you are the only one that bad things happen to. Worse things happen to some people, but we all have our own burdens to bare, and you'd get a lot more respect for caring about other people's troubles more than your own. When you just sit there complaining about everything it's a total slap in the face to everyone who cares about you because it's like saying "My life sucks so much that not even having all of you in it to help me out makes up for it."

Obviously I'm going to stand by people no matter what, and sometimes people are going through such hard times that they can't see past it. I get that, it just gets frustrating backing people up in certain situations because it feels like I'm just encouraging their pity party. I do because it'd be horrible to straight up tell it like it is when somebody is miserable, but please people YOU'RE WORTH MORE THAN THAT. If you're being strong through your troubles, other people are going to respect you more and give you more sympathy than if you run around telling everyone about every little thing that has ever gone wrong and whining about it every day.

That all sounds really harsh, but people need to start taking responsibility for their lives and stop blaming it all on circumstances and other people. Why not look at the bride side and appreciate what you DO have than always be miserable because you choose to only see the bad.

It just breaks my heart that people settle for so much less than what they really deserve in life because they think it's all they're going to get. I just want the best for them and wish they could be at least partially happy in a lasting way.

Life is made up of good and bad, that's the beauty of it. Learn to see the beauty and accept the bad. Don't embrace it, just understand it exists and be prepared to not let it defeat you.