Find some. We all need it... it is one of the things that allows us to connect with others.
Also tact. But that is not the point.
Everything is relative. If you have never broken a single bone in your body and all of the sudden you break your leg... it probably "hurts" more than if you've broken your leg twice already and understand pain differently - intimately.
If you've never broken your leg... you cannot understand what it feels like to break your leg.
You CAN sympathize though.
What is inappropriate, I feel, is to tell someone who broke their leg to suck it up and get over it if you've never experienced the pain associated with learning how to walk again.
Perhaps I need some perspective of my own.. I should listen to my own "advice" and stop being hypocritical. It's not intentional, I do not mean to deceive myself... so how do I stop? How can I be more aware of it, more conscious?
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