Damn kind of thought this would be an uplifting post.

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    3 months ago

    You think there’s nothing going on behind the scenes that an American citizen should be proud of? Note this is different from “Americans have a lot to be ashamed of AND a lot of to be proud of”

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      3 months ago

      Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.

      I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 350K at the age of 30.

      From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them. And they kept lecturing me about how ‘naive and dumb’ i was for being happy with my life…

      People just become prisoners in their own minds and can’t see any good in the world or their own lives.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.

          She also wanted a cat but then kept saying how she can’t get one because it will mean she is a pathetic sad lonely single person. It was so weird. I had a cat and she would come over and play with him all the time… then start in on her self-hating rants. She could never just enjoy something.