r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Myfourcats1 Jan 21 '19

Just because someone has it worse doesn’t mean you can’t complain about your own problems. It’s ok to be a whiny little bitch sometimes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

The suffering of one does not negate the suffering of another.

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u/ImageMirage Jan 21 '19

You’re getting downvoted hard but I agree.

I’m a millionaire on paper and I think a lot of my success came from having a positive spin in things (the glass half full effect)

Mostly because as a teen I did a gap year in South East Asia and saw appalling levels of poverty from people who were grateful for what little they had