• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Counting someone else’s tragedy as a personal blessing AKA when the privileged make someone else’s tragedy about them.

    “I’m so blessed” whilst looking upon someone who’s struggling with mental or physical issues/homeless. And they explain it as their way of having gratitude.

    I’m all for the gratitude lists but it’s not meant to be another channel wax on the narcissism and quell esteem issues by comparing yourself to others. Need a benchmark to know you’re doing well? Compare yourself with where you were yesterday. Not where someone else is today.

    Esteem boosts shouldn’t come at the cost of pulling attention from someone else’s tragedy to pat yourself on the back.