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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I think context is so important. I overheard a joke at work about cancer the week after I lost my mother to it, and quickly I realised the world wasn’t going to change just because I’d suffered a loss. It was going to go on turning, and that’s a good thing. Obviously, nobody meant to upset me, the person who told the joke didn’t know my circumstances. There was no hate or malice in it (it was a funny joke from what I remember), it’s just words. People need to harden their skin and stop being a slave to every sensitive subject. Own your problems, don’t let them own you. EDIT; before someone calls me on this, I know some events are much harder to cope with than others, but you can’t expect the world to change just because you can’t.
gpt
Not being triggered by life events outside our control is next to impossible, it's clearly better to learn to deal with it