Comments on: Hierarchy of Suffering. Who wins?

By: patty

patty — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:08:46 +0000

holla.

By: moosh in indy.

moosh in indy. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:40:54 +0000

This is still the best post ever. EVER.

By: Julie @ the calm before the stork

Julie @ the calm before the stork — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:28:17 +0000

This was a good one for me to read tonight. I’ve been feeling really small for my post recently, asking the internet to help me replace a lost hat.

It’s just a hat.

Guilt, and the hierarchy of pain, you’re so right.

Many worse things happen than losing the perfect hat. And you know what? I still want to find it again, to have someone contact me with one they want to sell. I want that piddly little miracle.

And world peace, of course.

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:38:22 +0000

Wow, awesome post!
Thank you for spelling it out for me and beating those nagging feelings of guilt I get when I whine.
Guilt, you lose! I am human, hear me whine!

By: Missives From Suburbia

Missives From Suburbia — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:23:02 +0000

OMG… Have I known Moosh that long, too? LOL!! Thanks for referencing my comment to her. I had to click on it to see WHO SAID THAT, BECAUSE I ALWAYS SAY THAT!! Wouldn’t you know it was me?

Great post, Megan. Another fantastic find by Heather.

By: CharmingBitch

CharmingBitch — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:59 +0000

Still love this post, Still love Megan.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:15:29 +0000

“Queritor ergo sum,” as Descartes would have said if he’d been me (and if he’d used one of those dicey-looking English-to-Latin translators on the web). I whine, therefore I am.

By: Linda S

Linda S — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:05:53 +0000

This post is wonderful and so true! Everyone is entitled to their own feelings and I get so tired of the “one-up” mentality, those that just can’t let you alone with your issues. You can still have sympathy without empathy if that is how you feel. Just allow us our feelings too without making us feel bad for having them. Bravo!

By: Headless Mom

Headless Mom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:51:43 +0000

Heather-Great Choice!!

Megan-Great Article!

So dead on. Sometimes I feel like I can’t complain about something because it is so ‘small’ in the grand scheme of things but sometimes it really helps to complain a little, get it off of your chest, and happily move on-without resentment. I have to say to my husband “Just listen, don’t interrupt, and I’ll be done and over it.”

This is what I love about the blogging community-most of us get this concept.

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:48:04 +0000

Let me start by saying that I am a ridiculously positive person most of the time.
That being said, I sometimes think I do edit any complaining because of this very reason, SOMEBODY is going to say, “it could be worse”.

Well, duh. Of course.

Yeah, I have four kids. And sometimes I have a serious complaint about SOMEONE. Then I think, no, I can’t bitch about that, it would hurt somebody’s feelings. Because I was actually there once, using drugs to get pregnant the first time during a time where my fertility was in serious question.

Then, I get pissed because, why CAN’T I voice frustrations??? It’s my blog, and it’s the only place I have to get my shit out of my system and make sense of it.

This is so well written. And you’re so right, it’s hard to satisfy everyone, because somebody is going to be hand-wringing more and have it worse. It’s kind of like that “eat your green beans, there are starving children in Africa” argument I was given to guilt me into eating as a kid.

So, on my blog, most of the time I eat my green beans. But sometimes, I don’t fucking want to.