Theirs isn’t bigger than yours

This too shall pass. After watching the above clip, I of course headed to the comments, because it’s my version of people watching, where someone quickly made the comment “they don’t have real world problems” or something to that effect. Those words struck a chord in me.
I remember I was 22 years old, A senior at MSU meridian trying to figure out who I was. Suffering from what I now understand was a bout of depression when I made friends with the IT guy. His name was Tim. He always had a listening ear and was always around when I needed someone to talk to. His biggest piece of advice and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt it was said with good intention was “someone always has it worse”. And we all know he is right, someone is always worse off than you; but, I spent years of my life telling myself to suck it up because my problems weren’t so bad compared to someone else’s. To just deal with it because at least such and such wasn’t happening to me. I stayed in a terrible marriage because at least he wasn’t hitting me. I kept friends and family around because they could be worse. I did so many things in my life because I took that one statement to heart. I took it and it became a part of me. I took it and the idea of being grateful and having gratitude to an extreme. Yes, I am thankful. Yes, I am blessed. Yes, others have it worse than me. But damn it, I had it bad. You had it bad. Your situation is yours, and it’s okay to be sad or mad or even depressed because of YOUR circumstance. Don’t compare you and what your going through to someone else. Your battle is you own, you are the only one that can fight it. And since that is the case, it doesn’t matter who else has it worse. PracTice gratitude, be grateful for what you have in your life. Hell, be grateful that it isn’t as bad as it could be. But don’t ever feel as if you can’t be effected simply because some one, some where has it worse. Cause that is the biggest pile of BS you’ll ever tell yourself.