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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not fashionable to quote Joe Rogan, but he made an observation that stuck with me that the hardest thing that ever happened to you is the hardest thing to ever happen to you (or something like that). The idea being that whatever seems hard to you now will seem more survivable once something harder happens.

In my case, I’m a special needs parent with a demanding (but highly remunerative) job. I love my son more than words can express, and I’m grateful for my position which blunts many of the difficulties that comes with being a special needs parent, but I do see posts like this or email blasts at work talking about balance or some such and kind of mourn a piece of our life that we’ll never had. Before I had kids, I got why it’d be hard to work through your kid’s baseball game. Now I’d give pretty much anything to know that feeling because a kid who can play baseball is a kid who will probably live independently someday. And there’s no workplace seminar or brown bag lunch for working through that sentiment— you gotta figure it out on your own.

In my case, I sometimes see the working poor or a single mom struggling with a kid whose child’s difficulties resemble my own and I find myself wondering “man, I can’t imagine what that’s like.”

Hard things can be harder. And even that’s survivable. Good luck. [/quote]

Or it’s not survivable. Lots of people kill themselves because life gets too hard. [/quote]

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