Hug your pain 💞
You don’t need to compare your pain to someone else’s before you can believe in its validity. And you certainly don’t need to prove to anyone how much your heart’s aching, before you can burst into tears and make some noise about it.
Belittling what you go through just because someone else seems to have it worse – or because it “sounds” trivial in comparison, will never make it hurt any less. For pain is never determined by a preset criteria or measured by the intensity of its surroundings.
So please remember this the next time your brain tries talking you out of whatever you need to process. Remember that you get to feel sad, even when you think so many others deserve to be much sadder.
Exactly. Our minds and hearts and brains are all different. Our capacities for holding discomfort and pain all differ. Just like one man’s dirt is another man’s treasure, one person’s trivial experience could be immensely difficult for another. It’s not our role to judge others, nor compare ourselves to them.
Thanks