Piddly problems

carla

Ever have just about enough? Ever feel like saying, 'yeah, join the club'? someone calls you with some piddly problem and you just got off the phone with someone with a 'real' problem like a child being diagnosed with a serious illness or something? Yes, I know, everything is relative. But sometimes you just want to say, get a clue, get your act together, this is a problem? Here let me tell you about some real problems! But you can't or you look like a cold bitch.

I suppose I shouldn't leave you all wondering, I guess I know a child who needs a 'hypervigil' for basically the rest of their life, however long that will be.

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calico

The piddly problems seem to be never ending with my husband! I wish there was a way to show him what others go through!

snarf

I remember about 10 years ago I worked as a customer service rep for a magazine company. I went through a heartwrenching miscarriage and I took a couple ddays off work to get through it, but had to return to make money to pay the bills. I remember sitting there, almost in tears, and people were calling griping because they didn't recieve a magazine issue for that month. One lady called and was YELLING at me because her magazine arrived with the cover damaged from the post office and DEMANDED I send her a new one right away, she was just really nasty. I finally had it with the pissy griping about mundane things and went off on her. Thankfully my boss was a caring individual and gave me the rest of the day off paid to cool off.

serendipity

In reality, aren't most problems really piddly? I mean, will it even matter in 2 weeks or 2 months?

MissBehave

I totally agree with you carla. I do this thing with myself when something starts to bug or upset me I immediately say to myself there are alot of people out there with more serious problems and I stop it in it's tracks right then and there. I'm not a complainer and I'm not into self-pity. Because no matter what's going on with me someone has it much worse.

Of course there are things within reason that I have to allow myself a little feeling bad about in order to get past it. For instance something happened last year which hurt my feelings quite a bit, and rightly so. So I allowed myself two minutes to feel a little hurt about it and then I made myself think of what postive things may come out of the incident. And then I just moved on.

I saw too much "oh, poor me" at the Kingdom Hall and when I got out I knew I wanted to be as polar opposite to that as I could be. Almost to the point that I've been called "cold hearted" and "too brutally honest" by my close friends. But they know they can count on me to give a logical perspective when they need it. So it works out okay in the end. But I just calls em like I sees em.