Food for Thought

Does any of this sound familiar? You’re going through a hard time and someone says, “it could be worse.” That may be true, but when I’m struggling, that isn’t helpful. In fact, it invalidates how I’m feeling and makes me feel terrible for feeling the way I feel.

Yes, there’s always going to be someone who has it worse than I do, but the only thing I actually have control over is noticing when I’ve gotten caught up in my troubles and forgotten to see that there really is more going right than wrong, right now. Our troubles have a strange way of blotting out the good.