Does Relativity Diminish Our Struggles?

So, I’m sitting here thinking to myself that the things I am going through feel monumental in size. Larger than myself or my ability to manage them in a lot of cases. However, when I look around the metaphorical room. I see folks all around me that have much larger dragons guarding much larger towers with much higher stakes princesses.

So… Does that itself diminish the struggle I go through? Is that supposed to be enough to lift my spirits up? “Yes, I’m dealing with X, Y, & Z, but it’s not C, B or A, so all smiles here!” Is that realistic? Reasonable? Expectation?

Or does the frame of reference come into play here? Does things like tolerance to stress, proclivity to bullshit, how easy or hard one’s life has been, does any of that come into play? Or is it all just graded soley on what’s in front of us right now?

Not that I’m into whining and crying all the time, but… Just something I was wondering about today.

 

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