No one has any idea what I've lived through

By most standards I'm old at this point. I've been through a lot. Most of it was so long ago it's almost too much effort to think back and recount it. I don't feel like I owe anybody any explanations as to why my life is the way it is anyway. I don't have the time, energy, or inclination to try to summarize decades of experience in a way someone can actually get through their head. But I think it's obvious that you don't get to my age without going through some crap.

That's why I can't stand it when people start carrying on as if I can't possibly understand how much they've endured in life so my perspective doesn't matter. After all I have a comfortable home and I'm looking at retiring from a successful career in a few more years. How could I understand poverty or abuse or illness or being treated like nobody?

Well guess what I had to climb up out of to get where I am, bitch???!!! I don't piss and moan about it all the time like you but that doesn't mean I haven't been through it. How about at least asking me about my life before you assume the whole thing has been a piece of cake?

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anonymous Relationships July 27, 2025 at 4:48 pm 1 0