Posted by alexandra_k on December 27, 2013, at 22:16:24
In reply to jenni's story averted suicide, posted by Phil on December 26, 2013, at 19:08:01
it is hard.
i think sometimes people (I?) and tempted to... write off? undermine? dismiss? the suffering of the 'worried well' (I didn't choose that term). But: the suffering is, in many instances, very real. And... Nobody chooses (according to me) who they are born to. WHether they are born to rich or to poor. And so one shouldn't blame them either way. Especially when they are young (and also when they aren't so young...).
I think there is a temptation to think that if only those people will think on those worse off...
And all I can say is... When I identified with that group. That strategy did not work for me.
So...
There it is.
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