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My life ended on June 21, 2020 Who wrote this post then? I know you go on much later to say that not everyone gets a chance to start over again but I have, so
by dfxm12 5y ago
My life ended on June 21, 2020
Who wrote this post then? I know you go on much later to say that not everyone gets a chance to start over again but I have, so do you have some perspective. At a high level, you got fired from your job, lost some friends, got depressed, but found light at the end of the tunnel and are working again, a year later (a year where a lot of people found themselves out of work for many reasons, mind you). I've got some news for you, like the chairman of the board says, that's life.
But to say your life ended for mistakes you admit to making when so many people's lives are actually ended in situations that have nothing to do with them (Matthew Shepard, George Floyd, etc.), you have the temerity to say your life ended? This shows you have a lot of perspective to gain.
- leafmeal 5y agoI'm dying to know if this post is satire.
- megous 5y agoI have a feeling that people don't always express their experiences literally. Maybe unless they have some mental problem, where they are unable to see behind literal meanings of words...
- dfxm12 5y agoMy point still stands, though for any amount of figurative-ness. That's the point. The author had an experience which amounted to a terrible year, after admitting some terrible misdoings. Almost everyone had a terrible 2020 regardless of their past, and employers fire people from jobs for much more tenuous reasons than what the author admitted to. Homosexuals, African Americans, other minorites, etc. have their lives taken from them literally and figuratively just for being who they are, along with jobs and future prospects, so we can be spared the pity party here. That's the perspective that those banging on about cancel culture here are lacking.
- megous 5y agoOk, but where is he comparing his suffering to other people? I didn't have a sense he's minimizing suffering of others on his webpage.
- ImprobableTruth 5y agoRarely do I read remarks so condescending, callous and cruel. Even instrumentalizing the tragic deaths of Shepard and Floyd to dismiss the hurt of another person on its own is absolutely sickening. I'd like to think that this cruelty is backed up by a good motivation. Maybe the author hurt you or someone you know. Maybe you sympathize greatly with the victims and you're motivated by righteous indignation. But no matter what, I'd really ask you to reflect on whether this kind of unempathetic approach makes the world better or worse. Because this is exactly the sort of incredibly tasteless comment a bully would write.
- leafmeal 5y agoI appreciate you taking the time to write something so thoughtful and sincere, and I really hope OP takes it to heart. Love and empathy is the only way to healing in my book.