Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone.
Today on Facebook, an acquaintance of mine posted that he wants to start running. He talked a bit about some specific goals. It was a very positive, upbeat sort of status update. One of his followers responded with a comment that amounted to, "I wish I could run. My knee can't take the repeated stress." That comment annoyed me. It took my friend's
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I know people have hard days. I liken it to this: Everyone is entitled to the occasional post in social media about having had a bad day at work. We all post them.
Some people dedicate the temple of social media to the daily bitch session about how much their job sux. I usually put those people on Hide.
A bad day at home is the same way with the kid screaming nonstop and he just flushed the goldfish and poured glue into the Blu-ray player -- I get it. I know some who use social media as their grind for how "hard" their lives are because they get the wonderful freedom and privlege to stay at home to raise their healthy, lovely children full-time. Those are the stories I can't handle -- the near nonstop bitching, the seeming lack of conscious thanfulness and gratitude. I'd find that void annoying in any human being no matter what the topic was -- when it's this one in particular, it's just Too Damn Much.
And it's never you, not even for a second. :)
Love you madly!
T.
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A bad day - as you say - is a bad day. But when all you do is gripe, bitch, moan and complain, I really don't want to be part of it.
For me what I can't stand is the women who gripe about their husbands. I always feel awkward when moms i know sit around and complain about their husbands -- and the lack of what they do, how they are at home, how they are with the kids, etc etc. They always tell me how *lucky* and *fortunate* I am to have a husband who is a partner and shares the load with me. I'm always quite honestly shocked to find out they do not. So while I listen, very rarely will I disparage my husband in a bitch session.
As for the posts about kids, I don't blame you. As you said, everyone has a bad day now and again. But when the bad days become the norm, I could see not wanting to be part of that.
Incidentally I had never heard that phrase about crying alone. It's a good one, and it rings true for me.
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