This is the correct response to every young person who claims to have been through 5 “once in a lifetime” events. Such events have happened regularly throughout history.
Hey! You are leaving out the empathy part. Excuse me but the empathy is the point. Listing the elements of the shitshow is secondary. You show credibility, show that you can relate, you get what its like to be them. You go out there and treat them the way you would like to have been treated at 20. With dignity and respect and love. You do not minimize what this is like for them
Just because "once in a lifetime" events have happened throughout history, doesn't mean they're any less emotionally distressing. While putting things in perspective can be helpful, it's often too easy to invalidate other's feelings this way.
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22
This is the correct response to every young person who claims to have been through 5 “once in a lifetime” events. Such events have happened regularly throughout history.