You don’t seem to understand. There is no country on this planet that doesn’t have at least one abnormal living environment within. And the people living in such types of environment don’t have the luxury of entertaining your kind of psychological snobbism/elitism.
You talk of ideals, not reality. From the role of an observer, not a participant. Your advice is superficial nonsense from a position of safety and comfort.
I mean, what planet have you been living on until now?
An average person doesn’t mechanically compartmentalize emotions and puts them aside because they aren’t “productive solutions”.
It’s good for you that you’ve managed this kind of selfcontrol in order to improve your life. But that’s because you’ve numbed down the things that do you harm.
A person that isn’t depressed doesn’t have that kind of ‘benefit’. Emotions run freely and wild without fear. And cause all kinds of trouble.
Lovers being jealous of outside attention to the point of madness.
Siblings being jealous of biased parental love to end up estranged.
Children in patched up clothes on the streets begging or on the fields working - being jealous of children dressed in brand new school uniforms and going to school together.
Any person in a hospital bed with a terminal illness watching through the window the world living a life they can’t have.
And so many other examples…
Productive solutions don’t mean shit when it comes to strong emotions and jealousy can be very strong at times. Strong enough to murder even. I mean forget about the world-ending news regurgitation, at the local level where the average person lives, jealousy is high up in ranking as a reason for commiting crimes.
Pardon me, but you sound very privileged here, in the spiritual sense of “stop being poor” or “just don’t be depressed” etc.
If that was your intention, you’ve succeeded admirably.
This community was just above your post in my feed.
https://lemmy.world/c/crumbgrabber@lemm.ee // !crumbgrabber@lemm.ee
It’s the first time I’m seeing it and it certainly appears unique to me at the moment.
Sure. Banana is the favourite fruit, and all the others are set aside.
It is caring about oneself. Exclusively.
Wasn’t that the bit with sheep blood on the door frame? And that it didn’t make any difference whether Egyptian or Jewish, as long as they did that part?
Far as I recall, some Jewish families didn’t follow through and they weren’t spared. So it really wasn’t about saving the Jews, but rather converting followers and punishing those that disobeyed.
Mfkrs learned the wrong lessons from it.
You’ll find time loses importance once you no longer have to manage it.
No! Pasta! Cookies! Pizza! Croissant! Gimme!
Yes. Not me, but yes.
That’s a 100% surefire way for me to have my phone snatched, no dice.
Nah, that’s just France.
Technically, you can drive full circle on the planet, but it involves riding ships in some places as they haven’t felt the need to build a bridge or tunnel.
Difference is between buying a brand for style and buying it for quality.
Some companies have quietly admitted that the only difference between their stuff and cheap knockoffs is the brand name and it’s fine for them because their customers don’t care.
Because phonetically, it’s “loos” vs “looz”. And people don’t care enough to know or apply the difference.
I’m not sure about everyone else, but in my case you assume correctly. The only reason I’d want a monster truck is to act like an overgrown child who wants to show off his big vroom vroom. Also, with a mandatory funny honk.
There are tiny little creatures living on your face that poop on it.
Not exactly the convenience sought, but in Settings there should be Blocks page where one can block users, communities and instances. Only it has to be manually typed and then selected. These blocks should also be transferred if one changes instances.
Great speech, really, but why aren’t you getting it? It’s not about you or me or the commenter i started the chain with. This was their comment:
Are you and all the people up voting that comment really unable to grasp that there are people who actually do that? That strong jealousy really is a thing?
You kept deviating with your own sad stories, hope and self-control and get out from the bad environment.
But this is about them, the people that get left behind, that don’t crawl out and escape, that don’t get to build their lives into the exact thing they need. So that swapping places with literally anyone else would be fucking awesome to them.
That’s why I said you’re sitting on a high horse, you can’t seem to relate to them.
God job on making it out though. Though they might have moments of jealousy, I’m sure most of the people that couldn’t do the same are proud and thankful you can be an example to them. (Not sarcasm, if you’re interpreting that way. You only saw those earlier examples and seemed deadset on them being the only kind there is.)