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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Awww OP I’m sorry you’re struggling.

Are you talking about big picture injustice, like the fact that somewhere in the world a child is starving to death while pretty much every American can take comfort that won’t happen to them?  Or are you talking about comparisons with other Americans, like maybe a neighbor who isn’t as smart and doesn’t work hard yet has more money than you?

If it’s the former, I think all we can do is sit with it and accept that it’s sad and unfair. If it’s the latter, I think you should work on not comparing situations and practice gratitude. I bet you have a lot of blessings OP!

Also, even if someone looks like they have an amazing life, you never know what they’re dealing with. I bet people would think I have a pretty great life. They wouldn’t know that I was molested as a child and it messed me up for life. They’d never know the things my mentally ill mother said and did to me. But I still get out of bed and try to live my life to the fullest. I have accepted the cards I was dealt and make the most of it. [/quote]

I’m not talking about a neighbor with more money— for starters, there are different kinds of smart, and also if we are both financially stable, that’s petty.

I’m talking about vast discrepancies, but a wider range than you are talking about. Yes, of course, any child who is going hungry, whether in the US or elsewhere. But also any huge disparity.

But specifically I’m talking about how being born into certain advantages tends to snowball and lead to other advantages, and how certain disadvantages all tend to snowball, turning people into Sisyphus, condemned to pushing a Boulder up a hill that will never stay there. The specific unfairness of never being able to actually overcome certain disadvantages, no matter how hard one tries, and then being treated with disdain by people who don’t recognize their good fortune in having no such disadvantage to start with.[/quote]

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