World Domination

I am not sure when self-pitying became a hobby. I have been doing that a lot lately - lately, in a more detailed sense does not only mean days, or weeks, or months. Yes, I am pretty much disturbed like that. But that is not my point tonight, is it? What I want to give notice is one of the lamest feel better words another person commonly says to a person who is currently in her or his state of sympathizing for oneself.

Before I even begin saying what I was talking about, let me be clear. This entry, by any means, does not intend to offend anybody. Of course, if you care for a person and she or he is lonely, you want to cheer her or him up even if it takes you to give the lousiest and most ridiculous advice anyone could ever give. Sure, we understand. The things you do for the person you love, right? Good.

Now, going back. As I experience my becoming-a-trend self-pitying periods and eventually hear the world’s most featured clichés like everything happens for a reason, what goes around comes around, and patience is a virtue (I still do not get why hurry the fuck up is not a virtue), there is also a common advice which I call the you-should-feel-better-because-someone-is-a-lot-worse-than-you-are advice. How does this advice work, you ask? It’s simple.

“My garsh, I’m so fat. Huhuhu.”

“You should feel better. Somewhere out there someone is fatter than you are.”

I know that what you are trying to say is for her or him to be contented of what she or he has. And that sentence seems bearable to hear for the fat person, isn’t it? But if I were the somewhere our there fatter person you are demeaning, I think I have enough reasons to be offended. As for you, fat, tell me how is knowing another is more miserable makes it all better?

You should really listen carefully to what others are telling you, to what you are telling others, and to what you are telling yourself, whether you are doing them and yourself a favor, or just contributing another crappy advice that is even worse than giving clichés.