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: do you ever look at the people around you and think that life is just shite sometimes?
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Had a call from my mum this morning. My aunt (her sister) has to go into hospital to have a mastectomy next week, following the return of breast cancer. Before that she has to go in for a bone and body scan to see if the cancer has spread. In the same phone call she said that someone at work is also battling breast cancer, and then went on to say that one of her colleagues lost her baby to SIDs yesterday - a baby she was told she would never be able to have.
I then went on to the website of an online friend who has been suffering from cancer and read that he had passed away a couple of weeks ago (he wasn't a close friend just an aquaintance which is why I didn't know before).
If I look at the world around me, I know or know of so many people who are going through a hard time, battling illness or who have lost family/friends to illness and I wonder, why is life so shite sometimes?
Does anyone else ever think like this?
My own life is fantastic by comparison, I just wonder why it has to be so crap for other people sometimes.
sadly bad luck or tragedy isn't shared out equally yes i do think some people seem to get way more sadness in their lives than others. My nan has lost two husbands , her daughter and suffered heart problems herself yet it's her birthday today and she tells me at the age of 80 she has had a lot of good things in her life.
I agree, and it makes me feel very guilty. The only thing I can do, is do what I can to make other people's lives easier. I also worry that there is some huge black hole of bad luck waiting for me just around the next corner.
Last year was possibly the worst of my life and yet I still look around me and see people who are suffering so much more badly than I have and do so with such a quiet dignity that it puts me to shame. Hope I get to 80 and am grateful for my experiences.
DH's cousin has had a terrible time of it. Her mother is rubbish and an alcoholic, her dad is homeless and suffers from mental health problems. She went on to have mental health issues herself, became an addict, was in and out of rehab, therapy, etc for years.
Finally got on her feet, had a child and the poor baby was diagnosed with a rare cancer. She lost her DS when he was 5 . Her parents were utterly crap throughout the whole of his illness.
She is now, some years later with a lovely bloke and expecting her second child. I am wishing sooo hard that things will work out for her she so needs and deserves something to go right for a change.
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