I know how that feels, I've been having a bad time lately, too. I'll tell you what my dad says, which he says that no matter how rough you think you have it, there are people who are still having a worse time. He says that if you were to lay out your problems on a table with other people and see their problems, you'd want to keep your own because others have it worse. I understand how hard and difficult things may seem, but it'll get better. Things usually become worse before getting better, so hold on tight, okay? You can lean on me, because I'm glad to talk with you. I apologize if what I said seems rough, but listen to this urban legend of a girl who wrote to her parents about college that basically says how much worse everything could be:
"Dear Mom and Dad,
It has now been three months since I left for college. I am
sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will
bring you up to date but before you read on you had better sit down.
Okay?
I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and
concussion I got when I jumped out of my apartment window when it
caught fire after my arrival here is pretty well healed. I only spent
two weeks in the hospital and now I can see almost normally and only
get these sick headaches once a day. Fortunately the fire and my jump
were witnessed by Roger an attendant at the gas station, and he was
the one who called the fire department. He also visited me in the
hospital, and since I had nowhere to live he was kind enough to invite
me to share his apartment with him. He is a very fine man, and we are
planning to get married. We haven't set the date yet, but it will be
before my pregnancy begins to show. His divorce is final now, and he
shares custody of his 3 children.
The reason for the delay in our marriage is that Roger has a
minor infection which prevents us from passing our premarital blood
tests, and I carelessly caught it from him. This will soon clear up
with the penicillin injections I am taking daily.
Now that I have brought you up to date I want to tell you that
there was no fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was
not in the hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have
syphillis, and there is no divorced man in my life. However, I am
getting a "D" in Art and an "F" in Biology and I wanted you to see
these marks in the proper perspective.
Your loving daughter,
Jane."
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