"you don't know the future/the future will be better" this sounds familiar. I've had an experience where I would speak about certain life changing events and f

"you don't know the future/the future will be better" this sounds familiar. I've had an experience where I would speak about certain life changing events and family issues and all I would get back is "you can't change people, you can only change yourself" and "time will heal this". Basically, very generic self-help kind of talk. I understand where they are coming from but it's an over simplistic way of dealing with highly complex situations.