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If You Think People Offering Advice Have It All Sorted, You’re Wrong
It’s easy to deal with everyone else’s problems
May 9, 2021
You read some people on this platform and just think — “If you’re life is so amazing, why are you even on here writing about it? Go enjoy your amazing life!”
It’s a giant department store. The homepage is the facade with those huge windows where they put Christmas displays. We choose what’s in them by what we read.
Do narcissists interest you? Step this way. How about a smug brag about writing earnings and going viral? Come right in.
It’s oh-so-easy to shout down “helpful” tips from the top of the mountain. It’s simple to solve other people’s problems. But scratch the surface, we’re all struggling somehow. So don’t feel any worse than you already do by presuming that everyone else is blissfully happy. They’re not.
