I went though a lot of shite in high school like way more than I was able to cope with honestly but like one of the things Iāve learned not only from that but from being around people freshman year of college that had relatively easy lives or really fucking hard ones is that invalidating someoneās emotions is so fucking shitty.Ā
You have no idea what is really going on in someoneās life, you have no idea if youāre getting the full story or if thereās a whole other fucked up part theyāre too scared to talk about, you have no idea if they have some sort of mental disorder that makes a situation seems worse than it is, you have no idea if this is just the last straw on the camels back
Ā Even if somebody is losing their mind and declaring their life over because of some trivial thing that wouldnāt bother you, if youāre response is to invalidate the emotions of somebody possibly experiencing the worst event of their life so far youāre a really fucking shitty personĀ
Donāt contextualise what other people are dealing with in the conditions of your life and what youāve been through. Donāt act like you have it so much worse than everyone else around you because you really have no way of knowing Donāt ask someone what they have to be upset about or blow their emotions off, the fact that somebody is breaking down and coming to you for comfort is an action of trust and invalidating their feelings is literally so fucking shittyĀ
I used to think I had it so much harder then everyone else around me and nobody could relate to what I was going through and I hate how immature and petty that was of me because I honestly had no way of knowing, and it took me seeing this in people around me to realise what a shitty character trait it is but literally so many people do itĀ
Thereās always going to be somebody who has it harder than you and somebody who has it easier and thatās just something youāre going to have to accept.Ā
Empathy is like such a fucking important thing and it isnāt just āI know what that situations likeā itās also āI have never dealt with that/Iāve been through that and it didnāt effect me in the slightest but who fucking cares because I still know what itās like to feel like your life is falling apart or whateverā like yeah