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[greenteasausage]

Everytime I express some sort of unhappiness, my mother calls me an ungrateful child and then compares my "supreme fortune" with that of "those starving children in Africa."

"Those starving children in Africa" is such a vague term in her mouth.  It's just a tool to criticize me further for my apparent petulance in being unhappy when she provides

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[erschlagener]

"But when you think about it, what worth should be placed on any of our troubles when they're compared to starvation and death?"I think it's a matter of context to a point - if it's not one thing it's another. True, life and death are more pressing issues, but in their absence we have other woes that foul us up

[silly_tuan]

how are they sometimes luckier than we are?

[greenteasausage]

They have less emotional troubles. For us, grades and such take place of their starvation, and we stupidly scar ourselves with dissatisfaction with the simplicities of life. For us, there is an eternal hunger for more, rather than an African child's perhaps more innocent view--that food and shelter may comprise happiness.