Ellen Pompeo tells a young fan to stop complaining and to start studying!

[big_ang]

Don’t complain.. especially to me… I’m sure girls in Afghanistan or other places in the world love to do anything to be able to just study https://t.co/7x7x6lcRiz
- Ellen Pompeo (@EllenPompeo) August 17, 2021

Some of her fans thought she was mean and she replied with:

Its really so strange that some people believe they know my tone? label it as

Comments

[pulseraroja]

people have been so fucking snappy recently lmao

[numbedtoe]

“Just wanted to leave room for the reaper in case he needed to snatch your wrinkled ass.”

Bb I get everyone is getting snap happy but damned if all these people haven’t gotten on my last damn nerve. I want to growl/hiss and that’s not me but here we are. Lol

[mathkills]

god how hard would it have been for her to respond with something like, "take a break, get some water, then come back. I believe in you!"

just because someone else has it worse doesn't mean that this girl isn't having a hard time at the end of her semester or whatever. I was so stressed in school I got hives every day for a couple of months.

[pumkinbutter]

Telling someone to take a break and stop studying when they’re asking for motivation to study isn’t in their best interest.

[mathkills]

are you kidding? Have you ever studied for hours and just hit a wall? "take a break" could mean take ten minutes, walk around, maybe go outside for a minute so that you get a change of scenery. It could mean watch one episode of a show you like to reset your brain. It could mean do 20 minutes of yoga. It doesn't mean fuck off to disney land and never return. There is PLENTY of research that shows taking a short break is really helpful for re-energizing and becoming more productive.

[pumkinbutter]

It sounds like that works for you, and that’s great. They could’ve been procrastinating studying all day, though, and just started. Taking a break would just be more procrastination. There are some subjects that you’re never going to be motivated to learn, so you just have to do it and not wait to change your mindset.

[vanouria]

lmao i just tried it and saying it cheerfully elevates it from mean to menacing tbh

[hardcoreninja11]

I never say shit like this to other people but I will constantly say it to myself when I feel like I'm being overly whiny. Which I know is dumb because everyone has problems and we are only human and it sucks having to deal with them, big or small. But I try to stay humble by realizing, in the grand scheme of things, my problems usually aren't shit compared to millions of others elsewhere.

[curdlesnoots]

Fuuuuu, I heard this in my soul lmao. I once replied with “Why don’t you post it to them then.” That went…well.

[v_is_for_violet]

Why did she tweet and ask Ellen that in the first place tho

[theactualworst]

This is my question lol.

[shittysoup]

[ljtryout]

Exactly. At least she got that.