your woes are trivial by comparison

maybe 
your woes are not trivial

your child may have been murdered
you may be living through a catastrophic inhuman war
your house may have burnt down together with all of your belongings
you may not have any belongings at all and walk ten miles each day for fresh water and fuel
you may not be able to read or use a computer and have no roof over your head and no job and no food
you may be sleeping rough and depend on alcohol or heroin or a whole cocktail of substances just to get through the day
you may have been involved in a terrible accident and lost control of your facilities and be learning them all over from scratch one by one

it is true
your woes my not be trivial at all they may be
existential
profound

but
for most of us
most of the time
for almost everybody
and really unless any of the above
or anything comparable to the above applies
for most of us and therefore for you most likely too
it is fair to say that
our woes
your woes
are trivial by comparison

and
no matter how trivial or how profound
they are
they too
shall pass

empathy and action

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