We tell each other to be grateful because we are not disabled etc, but happiness is relative, the issue is we forget to remove our own experience when we imagine being another person. E.g: A deaf person by birth might have no idea what sound is like, so it’s impossible to experience an absence of sound because sound is never present. The mistake is that we imagine how unpleasant life would be if our hearing was removed. This can be applied to other senses such as sight.
A millionaire who lost a few million overnight definitely feels more miserable than a person who never owned a fraction of a million.
Hence, it might not be always practical to ask someone to imagine being in your shoes and vice versa.
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