Recently, I was casually chatting with a friend about a traumatic hair experience.
You see, my hairdresser screwed up royally and, long story short, the rescue mission involved another hairdresser cutting off more length than I was initially comfortable with.
My friend’s reaction floored me. Rather than listen to my dramatic tale of spending $500 on my hair in two days and how I was adjusting to life with short hair, she shut me down.
“First world problem” she said. “That’s a first world problem.”
And then she was done. Conversation over. Case closed.
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Id call it traumatic too
Ripped off $500 and got short hair as a result
Your friend acted like a cow. Id be annoyed too as my friends know my hair is important to me and chopping it all off would have me hating it
Traumatic haircut? No, trauma is being raped, living in a war zone, domestic violence, those things are traumatic. You made the CHOICE to have a $500 haircut, you may not like the result but it won't ruin your life.
Still...one must be allowed to have a whinge to her friends about the smallest of problems. "...the problems of one individual should not be considered irrelevant because the suffering of another is worse."
what a ridiculous comment, so if you haven't been raped, live in poverty or have bombs dropped on you all feelings are off the table. I really hope you don't have children, another generation of depressed kids who can't express themselves because there feelings aren't valid.
Ive been raped and had a haircut so bad id call it traumatic
I havnt seen a hairdresser in 15 plus years
My goodness, you have completely missed my point. They were JUST EXAMPLES of traumatic events. A bad haircut (of which no doubt we've all had) is not traumatic. A before you jump down my throat I've been through a lot of bad experiences in my life including depression and severe mental illness. Nowhere did I say that anybody's feelings were irrelevant and that you had to have been raped or whatever for it to be considered a bad experience. If you read between the lines you would have realised that I was pointing out that while an experience may have been bad others have been through much worse. I've been through more than others, others have been through more than me. It's about putting things into perspective. So instead of going on the attack, stop and think about what I'm saying and it's rather hypocritical of you to go on the attack and accuse me of not caring about people's feelings. Did it ever occur to you that I've been through a lot and that I have a lot of empathy for those who have experienced bad things including kids who I care about a lot?